The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-05 00:00:00

HILARY TERM.

At the commencement of Hilary Term, on Tuesday
next, the several courts of law and equity will resume
their sittings. The lists of arrears in the common-
law courts, which have just been exhibited, show an
aggregate of 368 applications, and, singularly enough,
the numbers are nearly equal. In the Court of
Queen's Bench there are 122, in the Common Pleas
126, and in the Exchequer 120. The Learned Judges
of the Court of Queen's Bench have, by their exer-
tions, reduced the number, and the Court of Common
Pleas, where the numbers were inconsiderable before
the Court was thrown open, has now no fewer than
82 rules for new trials. In the Queen's Bench there
are 39 special cases and demurrers for argument, and
eight for judgment ; in the former, the demurrer in
the case of Bunn and Lind stands early. There are
64 rules for new trials and 11 for judgment. Nith
the exception of three, the earliest rule for
a new trial was obtained in Hilary Term
last. The following not.ce has been is-
sued :—" The special paper will not be taken dur-
ing Hilary Term, 1848, but on the days devoted to it,
viz., Tuesdays and Fridays; the new trial paper will
be taken after the Bar has been once gone through
for motions. The new trial paper will be absolute
on the usual days—viz., Mondays and Thursdays, and
the first and last four days of Term, in the event of
motions not occupying the Court on the last-men-
tioned days." In the remanet paper of the Court of
Common Pleas there are four enlarged rules, 82 rules
for new trials (the earliest of which was moved in
Michaelmas Term, 1846), and nine for judgment.
There are 26 demurrers and four registration appeals.
Id the Court of Exchequer there are 17 rules in the
peremptory paper, and in the demurrer list eight for
judgment and four for arguinent. In the special
paper there are four rules for judgment and 19 for
argument. In the new trial paper there are two rules
for the decision of the Court, and 66 for argument.

FORTUNE-TELLING PAPERS.—As some factory girls
of Frome were, on Thursday week, returning to their
work from breakfast, over a long, narrow bridge, they
picked up some folded papers, which the first breath of
wind would have carried into the water. " La! what is
it?" " Oh!" said another, " they be fortune-telling
papers what the witchery people carry." So they went
up to their own shop, and parted the curiosities amongst
their shop-mates. Luckily, one of them, at dinner time,
showed one of these fortune-telling papers to her father,
who at once saw that it was a 51. note, and immediately
collected the others, amounting to 251. This sum had
been dropped by one of the men, who had been en-
trusted with it by his master to pay a bill. It is singular
that these girls, who were from fourteen to seventeen
years of age, did not actually know a 5L note, never
having seen one before. The reader, however, may think
that the girls were quite right in their conjecture, that
they were fortune-telling papers, and very bewitching.—
Bristol Paper.
MADAME L AFFARG E AGAIN:FrOM the depths of
her ignominy and solitude has that restless, unquiet
spirit found means to inflict a deep, envenomed wound
upon the man whom she persists in denominating her
murderer. It appears that she has been devoting the
whole of her time of late to the study of medicine; and
among other scientific works which have fallen into her
hands, those of Orfila, the great medical authority whose
testimony upon her trial turned the balance of justice
against her, have met with her most serious attention.
It appears that on rising from a steady and calm perusal
of these works, she has discovered the most gross and
flagrant contradictions, not only from one work to ano-
ther, but no less than seven in the same volume. Here-
upon she has written a triumphant letter to her enemy,
in which she taxes him with ignorance and uncertainty,
and asks how he dares thus to trifle as he has done with
the lives of the living and the reputation of the dead.
She has taken fresh courage from this discovery, and
has risen at length from her bed, consenting to don the
prison clothes, and take an office in the prison. She
has chosen that of waiting on the sick, and is unremitting
in her attendance at the infirmary. What an extraor-
dinary coincidence with the Marquise de Brinvilliers!—
A tlas.

THE SEE or HEREFORD. The confirmation of
the Rev. Dr. Hampden as Bishop of Hereford, will take
place at Bow Church, Cheapside, but the precise day has
not as yet been fixed, the royal mandate, confirming the
decision of the dean and chapter, not having passed the
great seal. The annual value of the see is 4,2001., with
the patronage of the archdeaconries, chancellorships,
treasurerships, nonresident canonries, and n benefices.
The diocese includes the greater part of the counties of
Salop, Worcester, Monmouth, Radnor, and Mont-
gomery. Dr. Musgrave; now Archbishop of York, was
appointed to it in 1837.
THE HERRING FISHERY.—By a Treasury order,
staves made of fir wood, intended for herring barrels,
are in future to be admitted on the same footing, as re-
gards exemption from duty, as stares of birch wood.