The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-19 00:00:00

MICHAELHAS TERM SITTINGS.
AT WESTMINSTER.
eto
Thursday,n Nov.s.
T. 5;
(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.)
Monday, Nov. 2.-Appal motions.
Tuesday,pi
3.-Petition day; lunatic and bank-
rupt
Friday, 6; Saturday, 7; Monday,
9; Tuesday, 10; Wednesday, 11.-Appeals.
Thursday, Nov. 12.-Appeal motions.
Friday, Nov. 13.-Petitions, unopposed petitions, and
appeals.
Saturday, Nov. 14; Monday, 16; Tuesday, 17; Wed-
nesday,.lB. -A ppeals.
Thursday, Nov. 19.-Appeal motions.
Friday, Nov. 20.-Petition day ; unopposed petitions
and appeals.
Saturday, Nov. 21; Monday, 23; Tuesday, 24.-Ap-
, peals.
Wednesday, Nov. 25.-Appeal motions.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor of England.)
Monday, Nov. 2.-Motions.
Tuesday, Nov. 3.-Petition day.
Wednesday, Nov. 4; Thursday, 5.-Pleas, demurrers,
exceptions, causes, and further directions.
Friday, Nov. 6.-Short causes ; unopposed petitions,
and causes.
Saturday, Nov. 7; Monday, 9; Tuesday, 10; Wednes-
day, 1.- Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and far-
ther directions.
Thursday, Nov. 12.-Motions.
Friday, Nov. 13.-Petition day; unopposed petitions,
short causes, and causes.
Saturday, Nov. 14; Monday, 16; Tuesday, 17; Wed-
nesday, 18.-Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and•
further directions.
Thursday, Nov. 19.-Motions.
Friday, Nov. 20.-Petition day; unopposed petitions.
Saturday, Nov. 21 ; Monday, 23 ; Tuesday, 24.-
Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further di-
rections.
Wednesday, Nov. 25.-Motions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce.)
Monday, Nov. 2.-Motions.
Tuesday, Nov. 3.-Petition day; petitions, and causes.
Wednesday, Nov. 4.-Bankrupt petitions and causes.
Thursday, Nov. 5; Friday, 6.-Pleas, demurrers, ex-
ceptions, causes, and further directions.
Saturday, Nov. 7.-Short causes and general paper.
Monday, Nor. 9 ; Tuesday, 10.-Pleas, demurrers,
exceptions, causes, and further directions.
Wednesday, Nov. 11.-Bankrupt petitions.
Thursday, Nov. 12.-Motions.
Friday, Nov. 13.-Petition day; petitions, and causes.
Saturday, Nov. 14.-Short causes and causes.
Monday, Nov. 16; Tuesday, 17.-Pleas, demurrers,
exceptions, causes, and further directions.
_ Wednesday, Nov. 18.-Bankrupt petitions and further
directions.
Thursday. Nov. 19.-Motions and causes.
Friday, Nov. 20.-Petition day, petitions, and causes.
Saturday, Nov. 21.-Short causes and causes.
Monday, Nov. 23 ; Thursday, 24.-Pleas, demurrers,
exceptions, causes, and further directions.
Wednesday, Nov. 25.-Motions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Wigram.)
Monday, Nov. 2.-Motions.
Tuesday, Nov. 3.-Petition day; pleas, demurrers, ex-
ceptions, causes, and further directions.
Wednesday, Nor. 4 ; Thursday, 5 ; Friday, 6.- I
Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further di-
rections.
Saturday, Nov. 7.-Short causes, petitions, unopposed
first, and causes.
Monday, Nov. 9 ; Tuesday, 10 ; Wednesday, 11.-
Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further di-
rections.
Thursday, Nov. 12.-Motions.
Friday, Nov. 13.-Petition day; pleas, demurrers, &c.
Saturday, Nov. 14.-Short causes, petitions, unop-
posed first, and causes.
Monday, Nov. 16 ; Tuesday, 17 ; Wednesday, 18.-
Pleas, demurrers. exceptions, causes, and further di-
rections.
Thursday, Nov. 19.-Motions.
Friday, Nov. 20.-Petition day, pleas, demurrers, &c.
Saturday, Nov. 21.-Short causes, petitions, unop-
posed first, and causes. •
Monday, Nov. 23; Tuesday, 24.-Pleas, demurrers,
exceptions, causes, and further directions.
Wednesday, Nov. 25.-Motions.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
Monday, Nov. 2.-Motions.
Tuesday, Nov. 3.-Petitions, unopposed first.
Wednesday, Nov. 4 ; Thursday, 5 ; Friday, 6 ; Sa•
turday, 7; Monday, 9; Tuesday, 10; Wednesday, 11.-
Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further di-
rections.
Thursday, Nov. 12.-Motions.
Friday, Nov. 13 ; Saturday, 14 ; Monday, 16 ; Tues-
day, 17; Wednesday, 18.-Pleas, demurrers, exceptions,
causes, and further directions.
Thursday, Nov. 19.-Motions.
Friday, Nov. 20; Saturday, 21; Monday, 23.-Pleas,
demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions.
Taesday, Nov. 24.-Petitions, unopposed first.
Wednesday, Nov. 25.-Motions.
Short causes, consent causes, and consent petitions
every Saturday at the sitting of the Court.
NOTE.-Petitions must be presented and copies left
with the secretary on or before the Saturday on which it
is intended they should be heard.

Ilill Hassell, a medical practitione-, residing in the
Queen's- road, Notting-hill, appeared before Mr. Paynter,
the sittinr magistrate, to answer a summons for having
assaulted Mary Anne Tustin.
Mary Anne Tustin, a decent-looking female, deposed
that she owed the defendant a bill for 11. is., for attend-
ing her child (since deceased), for which he had sent her
a lawyer's letter. On the 7th instant she went to him,
and told him she thought it was very sharp practice ;
that she thought that he was not treating her properly ;
and that he had not acted properly to her child while he
attended it. Defendant denied having murdered her
child, as she said, and made use of some very vulgar
language towards her in reference to the letter. Upon
that he put on his hat, and seizing hold of her by the
arms, he forced her out of the surgery, and threw her
violently into the street, by which her knee was cut.
This was the assault complained of.
George Moore corroborated in some particulars the
evidence of the complainant.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said he pro-
fcs- ionally attended the complainant's child. After its
decease he sent in his bill. The complainant accused
him of having murdered her child, and he sent her a
lawyer's letter. On the receipt the came to him, and
abused him in his surgery. He ordered her out, but she
continued her abuse, threatening him that his name
should appear in all the newspapers. He then put her
out of the house, using no more violence than was ne-
cessary, but in so doing she tripped her feet over the sill
of the door.

Edward Miller, defendant's assistant, deposed that he
was in the surgery, and heard an altercation between the
defendant and complainant, and thinking it was a pri-
vate matter, he went out into the adjoining room. He
heard her accuse Mr. Hassel with murdering her chqd,
and also heard him turning her out.
Mr. PAYNTER said he could not see what tho com-
plainant wanted in going to the defendant's house, if it
was not to insult him, as she did not go to
pay him. She had, however, gone there, and
insulted the defendant, >sy charging him with a cri-
minal offence ; yet that did not ju.tity the improper re-
mark which the defendant had made to the complainant,
and which, as a medical man, he must ever lament having
used, but it justified the defendant in turning her out of
his house, provided that he did not use more violence
than was necessary. According, however, to the evi-
dence of Moore, the defendant had used more and un-
necessary violence, for which he must fine the defendant
403. and costs.
Defendant immediately paid the amount.

NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL TO
MR. VILLIERS.
(From the Edinburgh Chronicle.)
We continue to receive letters, from various parts of
the kingdom, communicating the gratifying fact, that
but one opinion prevails concerning the strange neglect
of Mr. Villiers's claims, witnessed in the Free Trade
Testimonials. IA number of influential gentlemen, in
Manchester and elsewhere, are bens upon repairing this
neglect at the earliest possible moment ; but they state
that it is deemed advisable to postpone any general
movement with this object until the Cobden tribute and
Bright memorial are completed. In the expediency of
this view we are disposed to concur, although we retain
our original opinion that Mr. Villiers's earlier services
should not have been suffered to remain the last for ac-
knowledgment.
There can be no doubt that, whenever a committee is
formed and subscriptions commenced with this object, it
will be found that Mr. Villiers's claims are estimated far
more highly by the public than the delay to offer him a
testimonial hitherto has indicated. The intimations we
have received satisfy us that a large number of those
who have already subscribed so munificently in the case
of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, are prepared to contri-
bute with equal liberality in honour of Mr. Villiers.
There is a class of free-traders, too, who have been far
more backward than they should have,been in the case of
the Cobden and Bright testimonials, who may confi-
dently be expected to contribute largely in the case
of Mr. Villiers. We allude to the Whig aristocracy.
With the exception of Lord John Russell, Lord
Morpeth, and a few others, the members of this
body have not testified as they ought to have done their
sense of obligation to the distinguished leaders of the
great movement which has placed the Whig party once
more in power. Whether this backwardness has pro-
ceeded from unworthy Whig jealousy of the merited po-
pularity and political position acquired by these illus-
trious members of the formerly-derided " cotton-lord"
fraternity, or whether it has arisen from a mere ex-
cusable sense of the slight offered by the free-traders of
the manufacturing and mercantile classes to a member
of the aristocracy who had worked so long, so hard, and
so ably in their cause as Mr. Villiers, we will not un-
dertake to determine. But we believe no such back-
wardness will be exhibited when a corresponding testi-
monial in behalf of Mr. Villiers is set on foot. The Whig
aristocracy must feel anxious to testify the pride they feel
in possessing at least one member of their order who can
fairly lay claim to share with Messrs. Cobden and Bright,
and the principal leaders of the League, the applause
and gratitude of the public. Now that the principles
which Mr. Villiers had so long and so ably advocated
have received the sanction of every enlightened states-
man of the age, the Whigs must turn to him with admi-
ration of his judgment and prescience.
Although the political ambition of the Hon. Member
for Wolverhampton is not of a selfish nature, it must
have been discouraging and mortifying to his feelings to
see his services thus remarkably overlooked by the public.
At a period when the press has been industriously hold-
ing up to public admiration the individuals who have most
prominently contributed to the triumph of free trade,
and when the various popular constituencies of the
kingdom have vied with each other in offering tributes
of public gratitude to these patriots, the apparent
total unmidfulness of Mr. Villiers's claims could scarcely
fail to be painful to that gentleman That, with a few
important exceptions, such unmindfulness has been dis-
played, is obvious. These exceptions, however, must
have been peculiarly gratifying to Mr. Villiers, emanat •
ing from the quarters they have. In the case of the
newspaper press, writers pre-eminently distinguished
for their talent and ardour in the cause of free trade
have been found to call to mind Mr. Villiers's invaluable
cervices, at a period when all others appeared to have
lost sight of them. We allude to the Times, the Ex-
aminer, and Douglas Jerrold. In the ably written re-
marks with which the Times some months ago noticed
the farewell articles of the League newspaper, the writer
took occasion to render a well-merited tribute to Mr.
Villiers, and to express satisfaction that the important
aid which the member for Wolverhampton had
rendered to the anti-corn-law agitation appeared
to be admitted by the organ of the League.
More recently the tallented editor of the Examiner
signified his sense of Mr. Villier's claims, and
his regret at the apparent neglect thereof, in a leading
article, headed " The Overlooked Services;" and Douglas
Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper still more recently reminded
the gentlemen of Manchester and other manufacturing
communities of their somewhat unbecoming exclusive-
ness in acknowledging past services in their cause, by
the eloquent biographical memoir which we transferred
to our columns.

These testimonies, we have no doubt, must have been
peculiarly gratifying to Mr. Villiers, under the circum-
stance of the singular rarity of such references to his
services on the part of the press of late; and the few
personal acknowledgments which have been afforded
must have been equally so, from the same cause. Of
these latter we are sorry to have noticed only two
instances since the period when, in the course of
their united struggle, Mr. Cobden and the delegates to
the great Manchester and London gatherings of free•
traders were accustomed to proclaim their sense of Mr.
Villiers's brilliant abilities apd Parliamentary services
by frequent votes of thanks. The instances we refer to
are those of the late resolutions of the Glasgow Anti-
Corn-law Association, and a more recent tribute from
the pen of Sir Robert Peel. Compliments from a com-
munity so important as the city of Glasgow, and from a
statesman so distinguished as Sir Robert Peel, must have
gone far to recompense Mr. Villiers for the paucity of
such acknowledgments from other quarters.

LAUNCH OF THE IRON STEAM-SHIP MINERVA.—
Another magnificent new iron steam-ship was launched
from the building-yard of Messrs. Vernon and Co., at
Liverpool, on Saturday week. It is intended to be placed
upon the Cork and Glasgow line, and it is one of the
finest vessels those eminent builders have ever con-
structed. The launch was witnessed by an immense
number of persons, who were accommodated as far as
possible in the yard, and the other adjacent places from
which a glimpse of the interesting spectacle could be ob-
tained. At half-past eleven o'clock, all the preparations
having been made, the unique fabric was set in motion,
but nearly six minutes elapsed before she had traversed
the launchways and glided into her future element. The
deck of the vessel was crowded with spectators, who
cheered heartily as she descended to the water. The cere-
mony of christening was performed by Mrs. Pike,
daughter of the late Lieut. Watson, of the St. George
Steam-packet Company. After the vessel had remained
a short time in the water to allow the builders an oppor-
tunity of observing upon her appearance, she was taken
in tow by a river steamer, and safely introduced into the
dock. The length of the Minerva between perpendicu-
lars is 190 feet ; over all, 217 feet ; breadth inside the
paddle-boxes 26 feet, depth of hold, 16 feet. She is re-
gistered to contain 627 tons, and her engines, constructed
by Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, are of 420-horse
power. After the conclusion of the ceremony, upwards
of 150 of the principal guests were entertained by the
Messrs. Vernon, in the model-room of the establishment,
where a magnificent dejeuner was spread. After the
usual loyal toasts, "Prosperity to the Minerva" was
drunk wild general enthusiasm ; after which the com-
pany separated.
THE QUEEN DOWAGEIVAND THE FAMILY OF THE
LATE LIEUTENANT PEARSE, R.N., ELDEST SON OF HIS
LATE MAJESTY WILLIAM TUE FOURTH.—By the death
of the late Lieutenant Pearse, his family, consisting of
two daughters, were reduced to comparative destitution,
on account of their late father having contracted a
second marriage, and settled all his property upon his
widow, liwri After his death as decency would per-
mit, application wig made on behalf of the two daughters
to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, Who almost imme-
diately upon the receipt of the communication, caused
inquiry to be made by Lord Howe of the rector of the
garish where the two young ladies resided, as to their
character, etc., and having been fully satisfied upon thi
point, she immediately forwarded to the Misses Pearse
a cheque upon Messrs. Coutts for a sum of money each,
for their present wants, and requested to be informed
what they wished her to do for them, and whether they
would accept situations in the household, as if they
would, she would procure them for them. The late
Lieutenant Pearse was the eldest son of his late Majesty
by an American lady of the name of P 111.30,
Mr. Wooknaghagenikdewegnabitnigenstorben fell
down stairs the other day and brake his name into three
pieees. It's a pity he didn't break ip into twenty,—Mon-
treal Courier.