The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

CARDIFF, Nov. 18.—The Bellona, Hoskin, of Brigham,
hence to Shoreham, foundered off Hartland 16th inst. ; crew
saved. _ .

PORT TALBOT, Nov. 18.—The Elizabeth, Crouch, which
stranded yesterday near the Skee Rocks, is discharging.
GARLIEsTowN, Nov. 18.—The Helen and Elizabeth, of
Belfast, was totally lost yesterday morning, on the Bourgh
Head, near the Isle of Whitburn ; crew supposed to be
drowned. _ _

YAnmoursi, Nov. 19.—The Janet, Walker, from New-
castle to Boulogne, was assisted into this harbour yesterday
leaky, and it is expected must discharge her cargo.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 19. The Tarquin, Moody, has arrived
here to-day from New York leaky, having been on shore on
Crosby Point.

AHMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, .Nov. 19.—The smack
Commerce, of Portsmouth, from Poole to Lyminghton, is re-
ported to be sunk between Christ Church Head and the
Shingles ; her cargo consists: of railroad sleepers, several have
been picked up and landed here to-day.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN .EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

The present week's arrival of English Wheat having been
very small, the show of samples of that article was limited;
hence, the demand for all descriptions was firm at fully
Monday's quotations. In free foreign Wheat rather a large
business was doing, but we can notice no improvement in
value. Corn under lock was heavy at late rates. Barley
was in short supply. The best malting qualities were quite
as dear, but Pll other kinds were much neglected. There
was no alteration in the Malt trade, which may be called
sMoidy, at late rates. The demand for Oats, Beaus, Peas, and
Flour was very dull.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley. i Oats I Hour
2,490 qrs. 2,890 qrs. 1,890 qrs. I 2,150 ks
150 I
t!,310

English • • ••
[rish ....
Foreign • . •• • •

1,550
Maa.2,750 qrs.
The number of be:lsts on sale here, was reasonably lare,
but of very mithling quality. The few prime Scots on offer
found buyers at full prices. Otherwise, the 11, of trade ►was in
a very depressed state, on somewhat easier terms. From
abroad, we received 430 beasts, 1,140 Sheep, and 22 Calves.
With Sheep we were fairly supplied, while the Mutton trade
was heavy, at barely Monday's currency. There was very
little business doing in Calves—the supply of which was
small—at late rates. Tlie.Pork trade was dull, yet previous
figures were well supported. Mitch Cows were heavy, at
from 161. to 181. each, including their small calf.

5,770

but with regard to the other three, that they were guilty,
but that they were justified under the circumstances of
the case. The application he had now to make to the
Court was rather of an original nature. It was, that a
rule should be granted to show cause why the judgment
in the case should not be set aside, on the ground of
irregularity ; or why the Justice (companion of the late
Lord Chief Justice Tindal) should not affix his seal to
the bill of exceptions allowed by the late Lord Chief
Justice on the trial, which bill of exceptions had been
sent back to the plaintiffs on the 16th, unsealed ; or why
there should not be a new trial, on the ground of mis-
direction ; or a rule in any such other form as the
Court may see fit. Though the trial had taken place so
far back as February, 1845, judgment had only been
signed on the 14th of the present month, which he sub-
mitted was altogether irregular, as the defendants had
obtained the said judgment without giving any pre-
vious notice to the plaintiffs, so as to enable them to
get the bill of exceptions sealed. The main
object now sought was the sealing of the bill of excep-
tions. The bill of exceptions was most important, as it
not only set forth that Norman as well as the other three
Ras guilty of the act complained of, but that the plea
of justification was not founded in truth ; and that;
therefore, the Learned Judge misdirected the jury in in-
structing them to deliver the verdict they had given.
The two defendants, Roe and Norman, were proprietors,
publishers, and editors of a Cheltenham newspaper, and
Bootle and the other defendant were their attorneys. The
Learned Gentleman went at great length into the facts
of the case, to establish the grounds on which he made
the application.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, there were not suffi-
cient facts before them to conclude whether the long
delay in not sealing the bill of exceptions between the-
trial and the death of the late Lord Chief Justice had
arisen from the negligence of the plaintiff. Still, in
erder that substantial justice might be done to the
parties under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, the Court was disposed to grant a rule to
show cause why the verdiet should not be set
aside, and a new trial granted ; and also it would be
open to show that the judgment was irregularly signed
for want of a term's notice to the plaintiff. With re-
spect to the other ground on which the rule was sought,
that of causing one of the judges to seal the bill of ex-
ceptions omitted by the late Lord Chief Justice, the
Gain was of opinion they had no power to interfere.
The rule relating to this point must, therefore be refused.
Rule nisi, on the other grounds stated, granted.
PARRATT V. KING.—THE TUNBRIDGE AND RYE-HARBOUR
DIRECT RAILWAY.

Mr. WORDSWORTH moved for a rule to show cause
why an order made by the Lord Chief Baron in this case,
should not be set aside. The order in question, which
was made on the 18th of July, was to stay all proceed-
ings in an action to recover 1,3301., from the Right
Honourable William King, for advertisements in-
serted by the plaintiff, in various newspapers,
of the Tunbridge and Rye-Harbour Direct Railway,
till a case pending in the Queen's Bench against Lord
Beresford for the same sum was decided. He (Mr.
Wordsworth) made the application after the decision
their Lordships had given on Saturday last, which
declared that the plaintiff could not prcceed for the re-
covery of their debt against the provisional directors in
their joint capacity, but only against them severally.

Rule granted.
SHAW AND ANOTHER V. CLARKSON.—LONDON, PORTS-
MOUTH, AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES moved for a rule nisi for a new
trial in this case on the ground of surprise, and that the
verdict was against evidence. The cause was tried at
the last Middlesex sittings, before Mr. Justice Cresswell,
and a verdict given for the plaintiffs for 6301. The
plaintiffs are printers and lithographers, and the
action was brought to recover for work done for
the London, Portsmouth, and Chichester Railway Com-
pany, of which Mr. Clarkson, a proctor of Doctors'
Commons, was a provisional director and chairman.
The point at issue was, whether the company or
the engineers were the contracting party. Messrs.
I)rayson, the engineers, were the projectors of
the company, and gave the first order to the plaintiffs
on the 15th of July last year, whereas the defendant
did not join the company till the October following.
The Learned Gentleman went at great length through
the affidavits to show that the evidence supported the
inference that the orders were given by the engineers on
their own account, and that the company looked to them
and not to the plaintiffs for the work being done.
Rule granted.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
BARNETS NEWTE.
This was an action to recover the sum of 1121. 3s. 5d.,
the balance of an account for goods sold and delivered.
Mr. WORDSWORTH appeared for the plaintiff, who is a
stationer and printer. The defendant is a gentleman,
who was one of the provisional directors of the Jamaica
Southern and Eastern Railway Company. The claim
was for books, printing the prospectuses, allotment let-
ters, and scrip shares. The original demand against the
Company was 1921. 3s. 2d., but the plaintiff admitted the
receipt of 801., which he applied to the first part of
the account, the defendant not having come into
the management in June, 1845, and remained therein
till December. He, the Learned Counsel, would call
witnesses to prove the active part which the detendant
had taken in the affairs of the company, and the fairness
of the charges, as it was now the prevailing opinion,
both in and out of Court, that the tradesmen were, in
such ca3es, in the habit of making higher charges to
railway companies than to ordinary customers, which,
however, was not the tact in this case. .

Mr. Shiers, the secretary to the company, proved that
the work charged for had t een done, and that defendant
was one of the managing committee during the period
above sp,cified, and the goods charged for supplied.
Mr. Fleming, a printer, and a Mr. Henneky, were called,
and proved th value of the goods, and the jury gave a
verdict for the amount claimed.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE WILKINS.
This bankrupt, who was one of the partners in the
firm of Beattie, WNaughten, and Co., of Nicholas-lane,
Lombard-street, Levant merchants, whose debts and
liabilities amounted to about 240,0001., and whose bank-
ruptcy was attributed to failures in the Levant, came
up on his adjourned examination.
Mr. James appeared on behalf of the creditors, and
Mr. Cooke for the bankrupt.
It appeared, in the course of a long examination, that
the bankrupt had previously been in partnership in the
firm of %V ilkins and Preston, and Wilkins and Mongredi,
and on the partnership being dissolved it was, he as-
serted, agreed upon that he should be released from
all liabilities, as he had property in China and elsewhere,
the proceeds of which would cover all the partner-
ship demands against him. As far as the transactions
with Preston were concerned, the moneys had been
received, but in the other he had, after joining the firm
of IVPNaughten, renewed his liability to the amount of
4,0001. by a personal engagement.
Mr. CooKE urged that the bankrupt had been to
Constantinople, and on his return surrendered under the
fiat against the firm, and adopted their accounts. He
had prepared a statement of his accounts with Preston,
arid was proceeding with the other, but, not expecting to
be called upon for it, he must now ask for time. There
could be no doubt that at the time he dissolved partner-
ship with the other firms he believed himself and them
solvent. Although released from claims by them, he was
not released against creditors up to that time, but every
thing had been or would be paid.
The COMMISSIONER said if the bankrupt had been
once released, he ought not to have again made himself
liable after joining a new firm.
Mr. JAMES said such a proceeding greatly affected
the stability of firms. Bankrupt had not a shilling to
meet the demand on him.
The case was ultimately adjourned for ten days.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
Robert Beddome and David Read, were charged with
assaulting Andrew Stone, last
night, at the bar of the
Crown and Grapes public-house, Little Newport-street.
Inspector Whall, of the C division, stated that the
Complainant was unable to attend this morning in conse-
quence of the injuries he had received, and handed in a
certificate to that effect from Dr. E. Gaudin.
Stephen Edwards, master butcher, 21, Little Newport-
market, said he was sitting with some of his friends at a
table in front of the bar of the Crown and Grapes, and
the prisoners, who were strangers to him, were drinking
at the same bar, and seemed the worse for liquor. Some
little time after, a French gentleman, the complainant,
with his wife and three young gentlemen in company, came
in, and in the effort to pass the bar slightly pressed
upon the prisoners. Read assailed him with abusive
language, and wished to fight him, which the complain-
ant declined. Read then rushed up and laid hold of
complainant by the collar, dragged him along the floor,
and struck him with great violence. Beddome instigated
Read to continue, who tore the man with his nails,
struck him, and kicked him.
Mr. I-Ltunwicx remanded the case till Thursday next,
and ordered the prisoners to find bail in 201. each for
their appearance to answer the charge on that day.

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UNFOUNDED CHARGE AGAINST THE PHYSICIAN OF
RING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.--Yesterday Mr. Bedford
held an inquest at the Prince's Head, Duke's-court,
Bow- strigt, on the body of Margaret Mailers, aged 60,
of No. II; Broad-court, Long-acre. Robert Mallars, the
husband, said, the deceased had been ill for some time
past. On the 2d inst. she became an out-patient of
King's College Hospital. Being a baker he had to work
all night, and on Monday evening, when he left home,
the deceased told him he would not see her alive in the
morning. Upon returning home from work he found
her dead in bed. She had complained to him of having
been kept waiting a long time at the hospital when she
went for advice and medicine. Mr. Bainbridge, surgeon,
of St. Martin's-lane. said, that he had examined the
body, and found death to have been caused by disease of
the heart. She had probably been seized with a fainting
fit, not an uncommon circumstance from such a disease,
and no one being near to apply brandy, sal volatile, or
some other restorative, had been unable to rally. He
had examined her medicine, and found it proper for her
complaint. Dr. Guy, physician of King's College Hos-
pital, said, that where there were as many as forty or
fifty outpatients to attend to, the deceased might have
been kept waiting a short time, but no longer than ne-
cessary. The jury expressed themselves satisfied that
there was no ground for the charges, and returned a
verdict of " Died from fainting, caused by disease of the
heart."

Yesterday, information was forwarded to the police
establishment in Scotland-yard of several robberies of
books, committed at the Western Literary Institution,
Leicester-square.

FR,IDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER

• THE CAPACITIES OF THE NEG RO
RACE.
Among the negro race, with all their disadvantages,
many examples may be adduced which prove theirintel-
ligence, ingenuity, and bravery, and indicate that under
inferior
grade circumstances they would not be of that
grade which they are now said to be. Among these ex-..
amples there is Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Napoleon or"
the blacks. He has written his name in history. There
is also Lislet, a negro of the Isle of France, who was
named Corresponding Member of the French Institute,
on account of his meteorological observations. A negro,
likewise, named Hannibal, distinguished himself as a
colonel of artillery in the Russian service. The Ameri-
can United State of Maryland has produced two emi-
nent blacks. The first of these was named Richard Bati-
neker, the author of an almanack, and celebrated for his
astronomical calculations. The other was named Fuller,
and was an extraordinary example of quickness of reck-
oning.
Being suddenly asked, for the purpose of trying
his powers, how many seconds a person had lived who
was 27 years and some months old, he gave the answer
in a minute and a half. On reckoning it up after him,
a different result was obtained. " Have you not for-
gotten the leap years ?" said the negro. The omission
was supplied, and the result of the sum then agreed with
IT answer. Thomas Jenkins, the son of an African
king, became a stipendiary Scotch schoolmaster, in-
structed himself in Latin and Greek, and finished his
studies at college. Lott Cary, a Virginian slave, in-
structed himself, made himself useful in business, saved
money, purchased his own liberty and that of his
family, and afterwards assisted in founding the
African Colony of liberated blacks, at Cape Mon-
serado, of which settlement he was elected vice-
agent. Phillis Wheatley, a young negro girl, a
slave at Boston, manifested much talent as a poetess :
she also translated from the Latin. Paul Cuffee, another
Boston slave, accumulated a considerable property by
trading in merchant vessels, manned with blacks, and
also distinguished himself as a friend of the civilization
of Africa. The chiefs of the " Amisted Captives," as
they were called, whose story is mentioned at length
in the American work of that worthy philanthropist,
Joseph Sturge, appear also to have been intelligent cha-
racters. But we must not forget to mention Placido, the
bard of Cuba. This negro patriot and poet, although
less celebrated,was of a like spirit to Toussaint L'Ouver-
sure. Delighted by his verses, the young men of
Havannah subscribed together, and purchased his release
from bondage. I'lacido, however, not only thought but
felt. He desired to emancipate his race. In 1844,
he was arrested and executed, as the chief of a con-
spiracy formed in Cuba, for the purpose of arousing
an insurrection of the negroes. On his way to the
place of execution he held a crucifix in his hand, and
repeated aloud a solemn prayer in verse, calling
upon God to rend the veil of calumny which was
cast around him, declaring he was transparent be-
fore the Divine, but ready to submit if it was his
will that men should blaspheme his dust. At the
fatal time he exclaimed, " Farewell, world ! there is no
pity for me. Soldiers, fire!" His body was pierced with
five balls, but remaining unkilled, he pointed to his
heart and cried, "Fire here !" and fell dead, as at the
instant two balls entered his breast. Thus perished
Placido.—People's Journal.

LITERATURE.

REDUCTION of the DUTY on TEA.
The Committee of the Liverpool Association for the
Reduction of the Duty on Tea have issued the following
tract, being their first publication :

" Heavy Duties on articles of such general use, and ap-
proaching so closely to the character of necessaries, as Tea,
Coffee, Sugar, &c., are destructive of the comforts of the
people."—PouLETT SCROPE.

20,

MURRAY'S HOME AND COLONIAL LI-
BRARY. No. XXX Vlll.—Journeys across the
Pampas., By Sir Francis B. [lead.
Circumstances of a calamitous nature have latterly
attracted the attention of Europeans to the republics
of South America ; and from the intelligence acquired
in consequence of that attention, the interest of man-
kind has been aroused in behalf the inhabitants of
those magnificent and extraordinary regions. From
the isthmus of Panama down to the straits of
Magellan, from the eastward extremity of
Cape St. Roque to the westward extremity of
Cape Banco, that continent presents a con-
tinuous surface of verdure, developed either in
the shape of gigantic forests, of cultivated plantations,
of arable land producing a most remunerative crop,
of savanahs, or prairies, or what are here peculiarly
called the flowery pampas, extending nine hundred
miles from the shores of the Atlantic to the base of
the Cordilleras. This beautiful and singular level,
occupying so large a portion of La Plata, is thus
strangely divided. After starting from the metro-
politan city of Buenos Ayres, the first region of the
pampas is profusely strewed with clover and
thistles for one hundred and eighty miles ; the
second region is remarkable for its carpetting of long
grass, and-stretches further inland four hundred and
fifty miles ; the third region, which proceeds thence
to the feet of the Andes, is plentifully covered with
stunted trees and dwarf shrubs. The alternation of the
crops, and the marvellous transformation of appear-
ance occurring periodically in the first region, is so
remarkable in itself, and is so picturesquely described
by Sir Francis Head in the very commencement of
his miniature narrative, that we shall pilfer one
paragraph therefrom :
"In winter the leaves of the thistles are large and
luxuriant, and the whole surface of the country has the
rough appearance of a turnip-field. The clover in this
season is extremely rich and strong; and the sight of the
wild cattle, grazing in full liberty on such pasture, is
very beautiful. In spring, the clover has vanished, the
leaves of the thistles have extended along the ground,
and the country still looks like a rough crop of turnips.
In less than a month the change is most extraordinary ;
the whole region becomes a luxuriant wood of enormous
thistles, which have suddenly shot up to a height of ten
or eleven feet, and are all in full bloom. The road or
path is hemmed in on both sides ; the view is
completely obstructed ; not an animal is to be seen ;
and the stems of the thistles are so close to each
other, and so strong; that, independent of the prickles
with which they are armed, they form an impenetrable
barrier. The sudden growth of these plants is quite
astonishing; and though it would be an unusual misfor-
tune in military history, yet it is really possible that an
invading army, unaequainted4 with this country, might
be imprisoned by these thistles before they had time to
escape from them. The summer is not over before the
scene undergoes-another rapid change; the thistles sud-
denly lose their sap and verdure, their heads droop, the
leaves shrink and fade, the stems become black and dead,
and they remain rattling in the breeze one against the
other, until the violence of the pampero or hurricane
levels them to the ground, where they rapidly decom-
pose and disappear—the clover rushes up, and the scene
is again verdant."
Accustomed as we are to our more northerly
climate, and to the more. homely and less surprising
landscapes of England, it is eminently refreshing to
be transported in imagination to a country presenting
features of a character so peculiarly and pleasantly
dissimilar. In the present little volume, of a 'most
unassuming nature, we are afforded a glimpse of
those remote scenes, and glimpses of their population,
and glimpses of travelling adventure, and glimpses of
mercantile secrets, all jumbled together, it is true, in
most bewildering disorder, but natural, keen, ob-
servant, to the life. The author apologises for the
scrambling quality of his chapters, after having al-
ready assured us in his title-page that the contents
were nothing more ostentatious than " rough notes."
He had no reason whatever for tendering any such
apology. Every reader will feel thankful for the
carelessness of the style, sometimes even for its
actual slovenliness. They will recognise in the broken
sentences and occasionally in the scarcely coherent
paragraphs, the authentications of the sketches
they embody. Some pages we could almost con-
jecture had been penned by Mr. Alfred Jingle, of
No Hall, Nowhere. For example :—" We galloped
across the plain—forty-five miles—each at our best
pace—proceeded straggling, like the wounded
Curiatii." It must have been Jingle, however, in
his most graphic temperament, in such a tempera-
ment as that in which he described himself to have
been to Mr. Tupman, when he (Jingle) wrote an epic
poem and fought in a Spanish insurrection during
one and the same day—" whizz ! bang !—another
idea—into wine-shop—pop him down, &c." Sir
Francis informs us, in the introduction, that during
the South - American - mining - company - phobia,
which some years ago set every one almost
as mad as the railway speculation did last year,
he himself had the sole management of one of
those companies; that he was suddenly induced to
take charge of an association to work the gold
and silver mines of the provinces of Rio de la
Plata; and that in consequence of that alrupt
arrangement he started a few days afterwards
from Falmouth and landed at Buenos Ayres. These
circumstances, while they fully account for the
author's journey thither, evince the fact of his being
a man of impulse, and thereby prepare us for the
sparkling, but eccentric, descriptions which resulted
from the excursion. Sir Francis Head is, from the
peculiarities of his temperament, an admi-
rable delineator of the scenery in the vicinity
of which he was a temporary sojourner.
And among the happiest of his delineations
of external life we may instance his account
of the Pampas Indians, the aboriginal inhabitants of
South America. Their living wholly upon mare's
flesh ; their occasionally indulging in the luxury of a
bath of mare's blood to their hair; their skimming
over their pampas continually on horseback, and never
on foot—every little characteristic is caught up by the
observant eye of the traveller, and recorded with a
faithful pencil. As he is most credible, however, in
the relation of externals, the author is most incredible
in his remarks upon the moral and. intellectual features
of South American kociety ; he is, as already ob-
served, a being of impulses—he looks there through a
distorting medium, and pourtrays in caricatura.