The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-14 00:00:00

THE GAME-LAW CASE.

The evidence of Thomas Silvester, in the recent conviction
of Mrs. Bridger, the fisherman's wife, for buying game, and
who has been released from durance vile by the humanity
and kind-heartedness of J. Collett, Esq., M P. for Athlone,
will not be uninteresting to the enemies of the game-laws,
and will afford some valuable information to Mr. Bright's
Committee, now sitting in the House of Commons.
At the Petty Sessions, held in the Town Hall, Petersfield,
on April 7th, 1846 (Captain Lyons and Sir Charles Taylor,
Bart., the presiding magistrates), Thomas Silvester, charcoal
burner, in the parish of Liphook, deposed on oath as follows :
Police-constable Hale, No. 76, of the North Hants con-
stabulary force, called on me, when the following conversa-
tion took place between us :
Policeman—Have you any work now to do? •'
Silvester—l have nearly done up all the work I have in
hand, consequently I shall be glad to get another job.
Policeman—l can tell you how to earn Si.
Silvester—ln what way, and how?
Policeman—l have got a pheasant and a hare in my
house; if you will take them to Bridger, the fisherman, at
Petersfield, and get him to buy them, and afterwards lay an
information against him, in the event of his being convicted,
I will guarantee you the 51. from Sir Charles Taylor, of Hot-
lycomb House, near Liphook.
Silvester—lf you cannot recommend me to a better job
than that, I would sooner go into the union house than be-
come an informer.

This disgusting affair has caused a great sensation in the
town and neighbourhood, and is strongly condemned by the
inhabitants generally. The poor fisherman has been called
on since the return of his wife from gaol, by Police con-
stable Smith, with a message purporting to be from Sir C.
Taylor, stating that he had two other cases against him, and
that ha was to appear on the sth instant at the Petty Ses-
sions, at the Town-hall, to answer the charges. Conse-
quently Bridger at,ended in person before the game-pre-
serving and unpaid magistrates on Tuesday last, when Sir
Charles Taylor promised to withdraw the two cases if the
fisherman would enter into a bond of promise not to commit
the like offence again in future ! I !—Hampshire Independent.

MADEMOIIELLE PLESSY.—This charming actress was,
on Friday, condemned to pay 100,000 francs 0,0000, with
loss of her pension as a societaire, for having quitted the
Theatre Francais, Paris, contrary to the articles of agree•
ment between her and the director. Our readers will recol-
lect that, some months ago, this lady married a literary
gentleman, M. Arnould, and immediately left France for St.
Petersburgh, where she was engaged at a high salary. We
gather from the trial that, in reply to a letter from her
country residence, stating that she was ill, she received a
harsh communication, telling her that the director would not
send a physician seven leagues to certify her -illness, and
ordering her to return. This very ungallant note so shocked
the lady, that she at once closed with the tempting over-
tures that had been made from St. Petersburgh, and
abandoned the director of the French theatre.

THE LATE MR. BLEWIrr.—In consequence of the
lapse of time that took place between the infliction of the
gun-shot wound and the death
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whilst others imagined that it was the shock which the
system sustained that occasioned death. Last night a post
mortem examination was instituted, Mr. Partridge acting as
chief operator, of which the folio oting is an accurate analy-
sis :—The ball traversed in a circuitous direction, extending
from between the sixth and seventh ribs below the right
shoulder-blade, and from thence partially around the chest,
between the pleura covering of the lungs and the walls of
the chest, through the substance of the inferior lobe of the
right lung. On removing the interior part of the thorax, a
large quantity of purulent matter escaped, which was ob-
served to occupy the right pleural cavity, pressing upon the
lungs, and thus rendering it impermeable to the air. The
large amount of fluid of a purulent character, with the shock
the system had sustained, was the paramount cause in the
production of death.
COALS, &C.—A return has been issued by order of
the House of Commons, relative to the quantities of coals,
cinders, and culm, shipped, &c., from the United Kingdom.
It thence appears that in 1844 there were 7,377,862 tons of
coals, cinders, and culm shipped at the several ports of the
United Kingdom coastwise to other ports thereof ; and that
in 1845 the quantity was 8,723,468. In the year 1844, the
quantity exported from the United Kingdom was 1,754,171
tons, of which the declared value was 672,0561. In the
course of: the last year the exports amounted to 2,531,282
tons, and the declared value thereof to 937,6351 In 1846,
the quantities of coals brought coastwise, and by inland
navigation and land-carriage, into the port of London,
amounted to 2,563,166 tons; and in 1845, to 3,461,199 tons.
A JUVENILE LAMBERT.—There is at present in the
city of Glasgow, a boy of nine years of age, standing 4 feet
Gi inches. He measures round the chest 444'inches ; round
the belt 46i ; round the thigh 24 ; round the calf 16i ; and
turns the beam against 14 stone His name is Kenneth
APCaskill : is a native of the island of Soa, one of our western
Archipelago, between Cana and Skye, in the direction of the
Spar Cave, and brought hither, we believe, by his father,
who is in no affluent circumstances, for exhibition. The
boy's sole language is the energetic language of Ossian.—
Scotch paper.
NORWICH A PORT.—It seems that the Railway Com-
pany will have the credit of demonstrating, practically,
that Norwich can be made a port of importance. During
the last week, as many as eighteen sea-borne vessels, via
Lowestoft, many of them of considerable burthen, having
been lying near Foundry-bridge, laden with coals, coke, and
other materials, for delivery at the railway station. This
proves how excellent and how practicable was the plan of
our late esteemed fellow-citizen, Crisp Brown, Esq.; and
must cause universal regret that it then failed. It becomes a
question, whether, as the Haven and Pier Commissioners and
the Yarmouth people, throw so many impediments in the way
of effecting a communication between Norwich and the sea
yid that port, it would not be well for the committee for im-
proving the navigation to turn their attention to Lowestoft,
where a commodious and spacious harbour is forming ; and
by which, it is now abundantly proved, sea-borne vessels
can obtain access to our wharfs?—Nolrfok Chronicle.
THE MAMMOTH LOG OF MAHOGANY.—By the last
West India mail, we learn that our fellow-subjects at Hon-
duras were rejoicing in the possession of what they had
christened the "Mammoth Log." The schooner Vigilant
had towed up, from Glover's Reef, the largest log seen in the
settlement for many years. It was to be shipped toEngland
in the St. Croix. The full measurement was:—Length, 19
feet six inches ; breadth, 5 feet; depth, 4 feet 2 inches; and
set down at 4,750 feet; exceeding 12 tons in weight. This
log was cut about three years ago, at the Rio Cuero; but in
consequence of its great draught of water, could not be got
over the bar till recently, when advantage was taken of a
great freshet in the river. The colony was doing well. By
the Superintendent's message to his Parliament, it appears
that the balance of revenue over expenditure for the past
year was 4,070/.

The salmon fisheries in Sutherlandshire have been
more productive this season than for some years back, and
while we noticed numbers caught by the net, we are equally
delighted with the success of the anglers. On some of the
Sutherland rivers seven salmon have been killed in one day
with the same road, some of which were very large. One
gentleman when fishing for salmon, hooked a very rare fish,
not known to be an inhabitant of the rivers, and, from its
strange appearance, some of the old fishers have named it
' colonel."—Rost-shire Advertiser.

Ambrose Hussey, Esq., M.P. for Salisbury, has been
unavoidably absent from his duties in Parliament during the present
session, haring been obliged to visit Naples for the health of a
member of his family ; but, as soon as circumstances will permit, be
laopos,to resume triose Atilles, or meet his Conatituente in can or is
dilottrageri.