The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

No. 17,395.] LONDON, TUESDAY

PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PART OF COPLANIV:3, MEDICAL DIaTIONART.
On Thursday, June 29, will be published, Part XIII., 4s. 6d., of a
nIGTIONARrof PRACTICAL MEDICINE,
&c. By JAMES COPLAND, M.D., F.R.S.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

MR. GEORGE CRUIKSBANICi NEW WORK.
On Julie 30, with the Magazines, price Is ,
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN.
A SEQUEL TO "TUE BOTTLE."
In Eight Large Plates.
By GEORGE CRUIKSIIANK.
- D. Bogue, 86, Fleet-street, and sold Everywhere.

Now publishing, price 2s. Gd., free by post Gd. extra,
THE REFORM MOVEMENT.
A Hand-book to all Reform Meetings, containing Important
Suggestions for Reducing her Majesty's Civil List, &c., will be found
in Sketches of her Majesty's Household, publishing by W. Strange,
21, Paternoster-row, and to be had of all Booksellers.
" What is paid to every one of the Queen's Household, together
with some rather strange revelations, are here set ,orth."— Era.
" The book proves that if the Royal Household be characterised by
the most wanton extravagance, its mode of expenditure is marked by
the most glaring inconsistenetes."—Weekly Dispatch.

GRAVESEND via BLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS.
Railway and Boat included in one Payment.
Fares, to or from London.
Fore Cabin and second Class Railway, ONE SHILLING ;
Saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING and SIXPENCE.
To or from Blackwall or intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin ... • • 9d. Saloon ••. • .. Is.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers.
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4,5, 6,6%, 7, and 8. Sundays, at, 7, .83 .* 1036, 1136, 3. 4.3. 6,
634, 7, 731, and 8.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blacksvall, at 9, 934, 10, 1036, 11, 12,
136, 234, 3%, 44, 5%,* 6, and 7.* Sundays, at 836, 9,9%, 10,
1054,11, 131, 236, 336. 5. 6, 7,5 and 734.5
The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these
times.
Passages marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per-
mitted to stop at Piers or for Beats.
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London
every quarter of an hour.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 41. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. 15s. ;
[tree Months, 11. 15s. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the
packets; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend; or of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall.
For Packets for Excursions apply to Mr. Morgan, Star Office, Fen-
, Lurch-street Station, Blackwall Railway.
June 10. 1848.

'` SUDBURY—HARROW-ON-THE-HILL, MIDDLESEX.
TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to
a Decree In the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause
I.II,IDGES v. lIINXMAN, with the approbation of Iticitaxn TORIN
KINDERSLEY, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, by
Messrs, Sedgvrick and Son, at the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane,
in the city of London, on FRIDAY, the 14th of July next, at Twelve
o'clock at noon, in ten lots, valuable freehold and copyhold Estates,
the principal part tithe free and land-tax redeemed, desirably situate
at Alperton and Sudbury, near Harrow-on.the-Hill, in the county
of Middlesex, comprising a capital Wharf on the Grand Junction
Canal, Dwelling-houses, Cottages, and about eighty-two acres, one
rood, and seven perches of excellent arable and meadow land with
farm homestead and other conveniences.

Also a leasehold mansion called Sudbury Grove, delightfully
situate near Harrow, and standing in a finely-timbered Park of
about fifty acres, with entrance lodges from the London road.
Gardens and Pleasure-grounds, Stabling, Coach-houses, and other
outbuildings; together with five Cottages, held for the residue of a
term of twenty-one years, at the low rent of three hundred pounds
per annum, with the option to the purchaser of occupying the free-
hold at any time during the term, on payment of a moderate sum
Also the Household Furniture and effects in and about the mansion.
house, which is at present let to A. E. Lockhart, Esq., 3i.P., as a
furnished residence.

Particulars and plans of the above premises may be had (gratis) at
the said Master's chambers In Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; of Messrs. Currie, Woodgate, and Williams, solicitors, 32,
Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; of Messrs. Karslake, Crelock, and
Karslake, solicitors, 4, Carlton-chambers, Regent-street, London ;
and of Messrs. Sedgwick and Sons, auctioneers, Riektaansworth,
lierts.

SCARBOROUGH.—BLACKSMITIFS ARMS, QUEEN-STREET,
COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOTEL.
MRS. ENNOS begs to inform COMMERCIAL
GENTLEMEN that she has taken this OLD COMMER-
CIAL HOUSE, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the support
enjoyed by her predecessor, the late Mr. Ruddock.

ROYAL ACADEMY of ARTS
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven) One Shilling.
Catalogue, One Shilling.
JOHN PRESCOTT KNIGHT, R.A., Sec.

MR. CHARLES COCHRANE, THE

REJECTED OP WESTMINSTER.
(From the Weekly Dispatch)
A Jury has decided that The Sun newspaper has
damaged the fair character of Mr. Charles Cochrane,
the rejected of Westminster, and, moreover, has
estimated the injury he has sustained at forty
shillings. We declare, solemnly, that if we had a
character worth only forty shillings, that we should
thank Air. Young, or the proprietor of any other
journal, to take it away, and thus give us the chance
of getting another and a better. Sir F. Thesiger
did not attempt to deny that Mr. Cochrane had
travelled through the counties of Kent and Sussex
as a wandering minstrel—that in that character,
he had insinuated himself into the houses of many
familes, by whom he had been hospitably entertained,
and that he had written a book in which he exposed
many things offensive to persons who bad relieved
him under a belief that he was a Spanish exile
These things were not denied, but were attributed to
a "youthful freak." It was, however, hinted in one
of the four letters complained of, that he had collected
money for the relief of the Spanish refugees, and
had not handed it over to the proper fund. The letter
in question, however, did not contain a direct charge ;
it dealt hypothetically with the matter, no doubt
in the hope that Mr. Cochrane, being himself a candi-
date for the representation of Westminster, might
set the business at rest by a flat denial. This was
the head and front of the offending. We perfectly
remember Mr. Cochrane in his Spanish character.
We had frequent opportunities of conversing with
him when he had completed the labours of the day.
He always pretended that he was a Spaniard and an
exile, and affected to speak bad English. His posi-
tion was greatly cernmisserated, and he was relieved
in a very handsome manner by persons into whose
good graces he had insinuated himself. Our
astonishment and disgust may be conceived,
on subsequently reading his published work, to
find his interviews with females, single and married,
chronicled in the pages of his book. The man was
so vain that he imagined every girl to be in lore with
his black eyes and curly locks; he fancied every
married woman to be deeply smitten with his ap-
pearance. Some foolish young creatures allowed him
to impart kisses to their fair lips—matronly dames
were eager to obtain a share of such favours ; at least
Mr. Cochrane informs us, and points out, in unmis-
takeable language, these who had indulged in levity
with him. Mr. Cochrane's book elicited the utmost dis-
gust ; it was the theme of constant reprobation, and
numerous were the persons at whom the finger of
pity was pointed for a length of time afterwards.
We think, if we had been in the position of The Sun,
we should have put in a justification ; indeed, Lord
Denman stated, in language that cannot be misun-
derstood, that if such a course had been pursued, a
verdict must have gone for the defendant, and the
plaintiff would bare been saddled with all the ex-
penses. Here are his Lordships words—" The
plaintiff had brought his action for the publication
of these .libels ; but he had not said whether he
was the author of this book or not, or whether he
was the wandering minstrel, whose adventures were
described in it. He had left the defendant to justify
himself as well as he could. The defendant had
pleaded a number of pleas, and the defendant had de •
murred to them as being too general. The defendant
had liberty granted to him to amend ; but instead of
doing so, he left no plea but that of Not Guilty'
on the record. He much regretted the course
taken on both sides. It seemed to him to
be a sort of ingenious contrivance to keep
the jury in perfect ignorance of the truth
of the case they had to try. The plaintiff said
he came to vindicate his character, but yet he would
not acknowledge whether he published the book or
not; and the defendant would not plead that the
plaintiff published it. It was quite plain that in
pursuing this course the defendant had not done
himself justice. He (Lord Denman) could not con-
ceive why it was that, in a court of justice, the truth
was thus always lost amidst forms and technicalities;
so, however, it was at present. Under these circum-
stances, they had to say whether the plaintiff was
entitled to more than nominal damages." Of course
it is impossible for us to state how an
important matter like this could have been so
grossly neglected, especially as the means of obtain-
ing the information were at hand. The book was
printed by Mr. Brettell ; the manuscript was revised
in his office ; numerous interviews took place ; and
yet no one was called with the view to show that
Cochrane was the author of the obnoxious produc-
tion ! We are not the apologists of The Sun, but we
have no hesitation in declaring that Mr. Cochrane is
not the man for a representative of the people—and
that, if ever he makes his appearance in a public
character again, we will throw the contents of his
book in his teeth, and make him ask pardon of the
females whbm he has so wantonly exposed ; and of
those fathers whose wives and children he has ma-
ligned.

[From the Weekly Chronicle.]
It is an odd proceeding to come into court with the
express view to vindicate one's character, and
then attempt to exclude the evidence by which it
was urged the charge might be supported. The
position of Mr. Cochrane is not much improved by
his verdict of Wednesday last against 111 r. Young.
The hitter had published certain charges, which
may be true or may be false, which were published
unquestionably with an absence of malice, in the
public exercise of his editorial duty. Whatever the
justice of the imputations made, the defendant
claimed to rest his justification on passages contained
in a work of the plaintiff. But these he was not
permitted to read, or put in as evidence, at the time
of the trial ; so that the moral effect of the verdict is
nil. Mr. Cochrane's legal advisers were right,
and performed their duty in framing the plead-
ings so as to render their client secure. But
how is Mr. Cochrane's purpose accomplished if
he sought to investigate and disprove a charge ?
Here was a book, averred to contain, amid the recital
of amorous adventures, the facts on which the charge
was founded. Why was that book, then, not pro-
duced if he hoped to set himself right with the pub-
lic, or why did he venture into court at all unless he
retained the power to produce it ? To Mr. Cochrane
this has happened, which we strongly
suspect is not
what he sought : he has gained his cause at West-
minster Hall, without bettering his case at the West-
minster hustings.

ACCIDENTS BY RAILWAY.
TRIM OF TRAINS IN TRANSIT.
A freedom of personal movement along a train, on
a regular beat, either outside or in, should be afforded
to the guards, so that either driver or passenger
might be promptly reached on accidental occasion, or
at short and appointed intervals. In such a case as that
which occurred the other day, when a turbulent, in-
sane, or drunken person presented a pistol at the head
of a fellow-passenger, the most prompt aid might
thus be afforded ; or in cases of sudden insanity which
so often and so oddly occur in transit ; or in an
emergency such as that in which both driver and
stoker lay dead drunk on the engine while it was
rattling along at:the rate of 50 miles an hour, with a
coming train on the same line of rail; or, in short,
in a multitude of unforeseen circumstances, in which
cords and pulleys, or any other means of com-
munication whatever between guards, passengers,
and drivers, would either be useless, annoying,
or imprudent,—by the simple means alluded ;•to
everything necessary could be promptly done, and
appears to afford a remedy
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any intimation to the driver to
.stop, &c., made by the
breaking, or a carriage running off the line. This
same mode, over and aabot;
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or prevention for
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prospective utility, is in the fact that in various cir-
cumstances, the nearest possible approximation to its
rough practice, suggested by necessity or impelled
a helpful foster-
by peril, has been naturally and almost instinctively
resorted to by the guards in the dangerous, uncertain,
and most unofficial and reprehensible practice of
crawling along the tops of the carriages. Necessity,
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he Builder.

7.777--..----- ,
IMPROVEMENTS TO CASTLE AND TOWN.
—The estimated charges for improving the approaches
to the Castle and town of Windsor will amount to
and South-Western Railway Com-
-83,420/, The necessary funds are to he raised in the
following manner:—Lash agreed to be paid by the
rWanityld,soinr,pSaytamiielenst of the expenses to be incurred for,
forming communications between the terminus of their
railway at Blackpotts and the town of Windsor, 60,000/.;
communication which their proposed
cash agreed to be paid by the Great Western Railway
Company for the site of the Old Royal Stables at Wind-
sor, and contribution in consideration of the convenience
and facilities of
station in Windsor will derive from part of the projected
alterations and improvements, 23,700/.
HORSIIAM ELECTION.—HORSHAM, MONDAY. Tile
writ for this election arrived at Horsham on Saturday
last. The nomination is to take place on Wednesday,
and the electionicu Thursday.