The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-07 00:00:00

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SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.)
PETT V. SHACKLETON.
This was an action to recover the sum of 91. 10s., on
a bill of exchange. There were other counts for goods
sold and delivered and on an account seated.
The defendant pleaded that he did not accept the bill,
,and nil debit on the other counts. He did not appear to
rapport the pleas.
It was proved in evidence that the acceptance was that
of the defendant, and it purported to be for value re-
ceived, being the goods mentioned in the second count;
but the delivery of the goods not being proved,
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF held that a verdict
must be given for the defendant on the plea for goods
sold—on the other points for the plaintiff.
The cases were wholly devoid of interest this day.

THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF
ENGLAND AND HIS HOLINESS THE POPE.
On last Sunday an eloquent and powerfully-written
pastoral letter, which was addressed by the Right Rev.
Dr. Walsh, Roman Catholic Bishop of the London dis-
trict, and his coadjutor, the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman,
to the clergy of that district, was read from the pulpit
in all the churches and chapels of the metropolis, and
was listened to with the most marked attention by the
several congregations. The pastoral, after alluding to
an order which had been recently given for the snspfn-
eion of the recital of the daily collect for the Sovereign
Pontiff, an order which arose from the belief that the
storms which had gathered round his temporal throne
had passed away, proceeds as follows:
" But, alas! how have our hopes been deceived—bow
have our fondest expectations been dashed to the ground.
Within a few days of the issue of your circular, a dark
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manudrdei
Forburst
comeforth,
hours,
oaunrds , a. a n fide nd
evens h
days, evil spirits seem to have had power given them
over the populace of the Eternal
.City, and to have
raornky.
swayed their feelings through their godless, leaders.
Murder was glorified in the City of the Saints; assassi-
nations extolled amidst the tombs of tne martyrs.
" But the sacrilege ended not here. A furious mob,
urged on as it had once been at Jerusalem by wicked
men, assailed the sacred abode of the Holy Pontiff, at-
tacked his small faithful guard, and heedless of either
the insults or the danger to his person, poured their
oalls into his palace, and, itis said, into the very room
in which he was. One truly learned, truly pious eccle-
siastic, well known for his labours fer the Church, and
a faithful and well-beloved servant of the Holy Father,
was struck down by a fatal shot, within the precinct of
the palace, while in the act of consoling and allaying the
fears of a very aged mother. It was with cannon planted
against the palace gates, with threats of setting them on
fire, and of massacring every soul within, except the
Pontiff himself, that, acting under the advice of the am-
bassadors who had gathered around him, his Holiness
virtually surrendered the reins of secular government to
the counsels of his enemies.
" EVery subsequent account describes this our be-
loved Father, as . broken-hearted and alone, narrowly
watched and guarded by those who value him' only as a
necessary sanction to their further purposes. There is
every reason to fear that his precious health has se-
riously suffered from the cruel shocks thus inflicted on it.
" Thie,,
_dearly beloved in our Lord, is the moment
for them to rally in affection round the throne of Peter
and the sacred person of its occupant, who understand
the deep mysteries of the law whereby it stands, and of
the providence whereby' it is sustained. Let them
wonder and doubt (for here surely non© will scoff or
.glory) who see in the amiable and virtuous Pius IX.
only one more sovereign whom the impetuous passions
of a misguided people is casting forth from a temporal
throne. But to a Catholic heart that sees in his august
person the living vicegerent, representative, and vicar
of Christ Jesus, never will he appear more truly in-
vested with glory, more worthy of deepest reverence
and tenderest love, than when, as his Divine Master,
his high and unalienable prerogatives are combined
with sorrow, with captivity in the hands of his own
people, and with treachery of those most dear to
him. If, when the Great Pontiff Boniface VIII. was
seized and made captive by his rebellious subjects, one,
who through life had been his bitter foe, could not
forbear exclaiming in immortal song, that our Lord's
passion was renewed in his Vicar, and that Christ once
more was bound and led among thieves, what shall we
say when he who for two years, who had gone about
doing nothing but good, is assailed with bitter and blas-
phemous taunts ; when he whose entry was cheered
with little less than Hosannas of joy, is hurried by the
furious outcries of the same voices, to a cross of bitter
anguish and even bodily pain ; when he, of whom not a
single act of severity is on record, is rejected, while the
Barabbas who committed murder and sedition, is borne
in triumph, and made the infamous lord of the hour ;
when he is abandoned and left alone in his trials by all
eh° have sworn fidelity to him on their swords, or have
protested to love him as disciples; when the cup of bitter-
ness is forced upon him in his dark solitude, and they
who are allowed to approach him will do so only with
the treacherous kiss; but, oh l worse than all, when
they whom exiles from their country he invited back
outcasts from their homes, he welcomed to his own
bosom, doomed to death, he forgave, when eves they
kneel befhre him in mockery, and affect to salute him
as their King and Lord, although they have but just
changed his sceptre into a reed, have cast a ragged pur-
ple over him in place of his royal robe, and have
crowned his head with thorns. Yes; what shall we say
when we see all this even now performed before us, but
that now is our time to rush forward with gushing heart
and weeping eyes, and burning lips, to tender our
deepest, solemnest, and sincerest homage; to recognise
now more than ever in our holy Pontiff, the head of our
Church, the Lord of our spiritual life, the master of our
faith, and the true representative of our crucified Re-
deemer? The words which we now utter will probably
never reach his ear, but not therefore the less du we in
our own name, and we doubt not, in yours, publicly
and earnestly profess our undiminished allegiance,
and our increased affection towards the venerable Father
of the Faithful. May the love of his spiritual children
which his tribulations will not fail to call forth, com-
pensate fur the ingratitude and unfaithfulness of his
subjects; may the prayers of millions of Catholics rally
round his sacred person, as a surer guard than a human
hest; may the blessed Apostles St. Peter and Paul,
from their hallowed tombs, lift up their bands in suppli-
cation and protection, as St. John Chrysostom imagined
them, over the holy city; may the angels of peace gather
round the annointed High Priest of God and shield him
from erery enemy; and may every bl: ssing of the Holy
Spirit descend in fulness, and to ovsrfiewing, upon his
sacred ht ad; be it again crowned with an earthly dia-
dem, or be it bare to the 'blast, like that of his Divine
Mast( r!
" Arfl let the permission of these hard trials strengthen
rather than weaken your faith. For, beloved brethren
and children, well ye know diet in this is the wonder of
G tai's power in the government of his Church, that to men,
and most to them that believe not in her, she should ever
apps ar like the Apostle, • as dying, and behold she livetb ;
as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet always
rejoicing ; as needy, yet enriching many.' It is this life
in death, this immortality through repeated destructions,
this victory over thousands of seeming overthrows, that
forms the mystery and the marvel of the supremacy of
Christ's Church. It was not a course of prosperity, and
a superiority over the vicissitudes of the world, that was
granted to it, but a power to struggle over and to win,
to suffer and survive, to resist, to stand, to remain un-
ehalcsn, but yet to be buffetted by billow, and hurricane,
and lightning, and all the fierce foree of the storm. A
reek would not have been needed for the foundation of
the Church, if the gates of hell were not to let loose
their savage host against it.
"And, therefore, did Jesus still the storm which
threatened Peter's bsrque; but not till he had slumbered
while it raged and terrified his disciples. Therefore was
that blessed Apostle upheld on the dark sea by his mas-
ter's hand, but not till he had felt himself sinking. And
he who heard the words • Feed my sheep,' no less was
told • When thou was younger, thou girdcst thyself ; but
when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands
and another shall gird thee and lead thee whither thou
w ouldst not.' And from that time forward that eternal
city which has witnessed so long and illustrious a line of
successors to his power, can also testify to the perpetua-
tion of this law, the Pond% now he king from heathen
persecution in the catacombs, then pursued by heretical
Emperors into obscurity; now driven from their thrones
byinvading foreigners, then made prisoners or exiles
by their factious subjects ; till the lieriftg Pope, the
ornament of our age, continues and shows forth in him-
self the same proof of his true descent, and a further
evidence of that rescusing power, which is inherent in
his dignity. The very name e hieh he chose on his
election to the Pontificate could not but remind him
how they, who heel lately borne it, had witnessed the
destruction of their earthly sovereignty, and had endured
the hardships and the humiliations of captivity. True,
it is, that the it calamities came on them from foreign
enemies. But so much more important was it now to
have proof, that even from within, no less than from
without, no violence can overthrow the spiritual king-
dom whereof he is the centre. The earthquake must be
as powerless as the tempest to uproot the foundation
rock of Christ's Church."

The pastoral concludes by calling on the faithful to
unite their hearts with these of their fellow• Catholics of
other countries, in supplicating the Father of Mercies to
protect his Anointed from insult. "Let," observes the
document in question, " this last persecution of the
Visible Head of the Church be met by us as was the
first. ' Peter, therefore,' says the Holy Scriptures,
' was kept in prison; but prayer was made without ceas-
ing by the Church unto God for him.' "
The pastoral letter then proposes that next Sunday,
being the second Sunday of Advent, should be devoted
to supplicating God on behalf of his Holiness, and
that tie " Collect for the Pope," be added to each Mass,
and that certain prayers, such as the 0 Saluturis,
Oremus, Jno. Pontifice nosiro Pio, &c., be sung in the
evening after Benediction.

SturwitEcKs.—The following shipwrecks appear
under our marine intelligence:—Schooner Ury, Humes,
of and from Sunderland to Dunkirk, wrecked upon the
Barnard, off Lowestoft, on the morning of the 4th inst.;
the master, Thomas Nicholson, the mate, and a boy
drowned,wr the remaining two of the crew taken off the
state,
,byantdhelasnoduetdhawt Lowestoftid Harbour in an exhausted
and all hand
and of St. 'gees 0 lifeboat. The boat Monarch,
Was hr. Cornwall, employed in the herring fishery,
swamped in a hurricane off the coast on the 3d inst.,
sunk on the 4tlTail)n.
fnaouert with a watery grave, the crew having
consisted
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fibvrei gmFilaeste,noorfthLyonf nilawmas.
borough Head, in
jioennsaencrence of having come into
was towed into Hull by
collision with the
the of Leith, which vessel
Brilliant steamer: the crew
of the Fate were saved and la
Hull. The Espe-
ranee, Lamuretto from Bouurt dat
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from
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the 18th
wwerercel:hedapopnilyt,hseaeBdt.h ult., near
a.nusson; the crew
St. Petersburgh was totally lost on)
telears by
ult., betwe( n Seska, and Nerva 18
,crevv saved.
The Podi, Glogovato, for Cork or Falroott.th
assistance has been sen;tl:ehre.
advices from Trieste, to have been stranded on 16th
ult., near Semani, between Durazzo and Voyaza
crew bad abandoned her ;
The Janet Kinnear, Kinnear, was wrecked on the 24th
ult., off Dolginess; she sunk on the south shore; master
and saved all their lives, but lost all their property.
The barque Sterling, from Waterford to St. John's, New
Brunswick, was wrecked on the Murr Ledges, Grand
Maran, on the night of the sth ult.; crew and part of
materials saved. The Trailer, of and from Bremen to
Hull, foundered on the 30th ult., 50 miles N.E. of the
Spurn; crew saved and landed at Hull. The Henrietta,
which went on shore on the Cow and Calf Rocks on the
Ist inst. has become a complete wreck.
The Lord Mayor has accepted the office of one of
the Presidents of the Fistula Infirmary, an admirable
institution, established for the benefit of the werking ,
and indigent classes.

will be observed that the rumours so generally cir-
culated to the effect that the witness had stated that she
saw Rush go out on the night of the murder armed with
pistols and a mask over his face, pretending that he was
going out after the poachers, are wholly destitute of
truth. These rumours have been traced to some of the
reilice, from whom the reporters had a right to expect to
receive more accurate information. The prisoner bus the
greatest cause to complain of these exaggerated state-
ments, and the magistrates both in Norfolk and else-
where will do well to remember that the gravest respon-
ibilty lies upon them when they determine to conduct
with closed doors the examination of a person charged
with great crimes. Public rumour is always unjust to
the prisoner privately examined under such circum •
stances, and magnifies his guilt, while there is too much
reason to suppose in many cases that country magistrates
have no better reason for excluding the public than
that their worships are in exclusive possession of a mys-
tery which every one else is exceedingly anxious to
know. In the present case there is no reason to suppose
the perpetrator of the tragedy at Stanfield-hall had any
accomplices. The use of the name of the Larners as
claimants of the disputed estate in the notices dropped
by the assassin in the hall, was manifestly an artifice to
divert suspicion from the real murderer; and as the only
person at all suspected of being an accessary to the fact
(Mrs. James) is now in custody, it is to be hoped the
magistrates will no longer persist in excluding the public
from their deliberations.
After the dispatch of our report last night, the Coro-
ner having expressed a wish to hear something about
the disputes which had taken place between the de
ceased and the prisoner, a lahourer named Stubbs was
examined, who had been in the late Mr. Jermy's
employment during the last seven years. Be
stated that on the day after the auction on the
Stanfield hall farm (when a distress had been put in by
the deceased against the effects of the prisoner), he
heard the elder Mr. Jermy say to the latter, " Come, Mr.
Rush, let us go in and settle our business, without law-
yers. I don't like lawyers at all." Rush said, "I will
bring that fellow Clarke (Mr. Jermy's solicitor) to bis
recollection," meaning "to his senses." Mr. Jermy
added, "I hate lawyers, they are just like we barristers
in London. They quarrel all day, and at night they
have dinner and wine together, and shake hands." This
witness further deposed that a trial took place between
Mr. Jermy and Mr. Rush last spring about a breach of
covenant, when a verdict was returned against Rush,
with 4201. damages. He bad heard Mr. Jenny say
that he and Mr. Rush could not agree as to the
Potash-farm. This witness appears to have par-
ticipated in the general apprehension which has
been entertained for some years past in the neigh-
bourhood, that Rush was a man who would not
shrink from committing some desperate deed to attain
his ends or satisfy his revenge; and he states that he
warned Mr. Jermy to beware of Rush shortly before
the murder. Stubbs deposed that, about a fortnight
since, he said to Mr. Jermy, sea., "If I were you, I
would not allow Mr. Rush on my premises after dark."
The witness continued—" I would not speak to him
after dark if I were you, for I think one day or another
he will do you some serious injury." Stubbs was, of
course, asked by the Coroner how he came to entertain
so singular a presentiment, or what reason he had for
giving the deceased gentleman so singular a caution. He
replied, "I don't know how I came to use such an ex-
pression, but the thing was impressed strangely upon my
mind. I thought at different times that Mr. Rush would
do him a serious injury. I knew that Rush was very
angry about the distress, and that a good deal of feeling
existed in his mind towards Mr. Jermy in consequence
of the distress" It does not appear that the de-
ceased Mr. Jermy attached any importance to
the prediction of his servant, or that he suf-
fered the members of his family to participate in the
alarm which so ominous a warning was not unnaturally
calculated to excite. Mr. Jermy made some reply to the
witness when he warned the deceased against Rush, but
the Coroner stopped the witness, and would not allow him
to repeat to the jury what Mr. Jermy said in answer to
him. Stubbs also mentioned, as a proof of Rush's vio-
lent temper, that when the distress was put on the farm
ho acted as bailiff there. Rush wanted to take a stove
out of the house, but the witness prevented him. Rush
seexicale3clioathede_st7e, and put it on the cart, saying, " The
first man who touches that I will blow his brains out."
T,hdanvveieseeh.diitu;bstosa,ukwnedh
sotoewvpaesrs not to be frightened by this threat,
I might as well be without brains as with-
out the
so.
The stove;" and removed it from the cart. He, was
to againstkeep Rt
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butis threats, rkeea
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jury having expressed a wish to know whether
a person wearing the large black wig and a huge bear-
skin cap,
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tsaottoetuhnfieaeplder.itkshoentrater'so house, would remind
tmhuerdseerrve
worn some such attire, enable
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nances for the chin, and surmounted by the
h icsap havingw as
placed upon the head of a jurs man in the room who
most resembled the prisoner Rush is form and appear-
ance. The butler and cook were then asked if they re-