The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

THE SUN,

only just left scho3l, and was about nineteen years of
age. She was then living with her brother, Mr. John
Fror.ch, and when 6ho ordered the goods she told the
plaintiff that her brother would pay for them, and the
conduct of the plain ff dearly showed that they bad
treated him as the only person responsible for the debt.
Mr. John French subsequently got into difficulties, and
went abroad, where he died, and the plaintiff not being
able to proceed against him, bad endeavoured to fix Mr.
Her wood with the debt. Miss French's linen was all
marked "A. E. Horwood," and the plaintiffs must,
therefore, have been well aware of the name of her in-
tended husband, and it was somewhat Extraordinary
that though Mr. Horwood's address could easily be
found in the Law List, no application was made to him
for the money until 1850, a period of more than three
years after the goods were purchased.
Mrs. Horwood was then called, and she said she dis-
tinctly told the shopwoman to send the bills t her
brother, who would pay the amount. He had mado e her
a present of the outfit.
Mr. Horwood said neither he nor any one of Mr.
French's family had received any share of the deceased's
property, in CODSE wience of a Chancery suit having been
instituted. The estate was nearly swallowed up with
trade debts, which were very large, but there was a pros-
pect of some portion of the property being divided. He
did not hear of the plaintiff's claim until Sept. 1849.
Mr. HUNFREY replied.
The CHIEF BARON having summed up the evidence,
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs for 801., the
amount claimed.

BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
Harriet Stone, agesf 19, was charged before Mr. Henry
with attempting to pass bad money, at a hosier's house
yesttriay. When she was taken into custody she stated
that she was servant to Mr. Winter (Spring), of the Cas-
tle Tavern, Holborn. Inquiry was made of her master,
when it appeared that she was in Mr. Winter's service,
and had in the morning obtained leave to go out; but
that in her absence, iu consequence of some suspicions,
her master caused her room to be examined, and found
concealed some articles which had been long missing.
Other servants had occasionally been suspected from
time to time, whilst the prisoner was in the service, of
stealing numerous articles, such as a silver fish knife.
silver spoons and forks, umbrellas and great coats be-
longing to gentlemen who were stopping at the house.
There was now reason to suppose that some of these
goods could be traced to the prisoner if time were given
to the constables.
She was accordingly remanded for a week.
A young man named George Wave this morning gave
himself into custody to police-constable Patrick Mal-
here, at the station-house in Bow-street, confessing that
he had robbed his master, M. Vittorio Nastaglio, in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of sundry sums of money re-
ceived on his account, and amounting to upwards of
thirty pounds. He was remanded to Tuesday next.

LOUIS THE EIGHTEENTH.
The following, anecdotes of Louis the Eighteenth,
when at Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, with the
French Royal Family, during their exile in England,
are from the Gentleman's Magazine :
" Here King Louis the Eighteenth led so retired a life
that little was known of him beyond the limits of the
mansion. Whenever he met any person in the grounds
he always returned their salute by taking off his hat, and
he would often hold a light conversation in tolerably good
English; and to one gentleman he pointed out with much
pleaszntry that each side of the great doorway of Hart-
well House bore a Fleur-de-lis in the old carving, as if
in anticipation of his coming.' The style in which he
lived was unostentatious, and very suitable to the rank
he held of ' Count.'
" His Majesty's family and suite, about twenty-five in
number, generally dined together in the large dining-
room, and once in about three weeks the inhabitants of
the adjacent parts were allowed to walk round the table
during the repast, entering at one door, and returning
by another, in conformity with the custom of the old
French Court. The regular drawing-room being
occupied by the Prince and Princess de Conde
on their visits, the library was used as its sub-
stitute, with the King's sofa raised on a little
dais or eminence; and here ho used to hold small
levees and see company. But his Majesty's own rooms
were the study and the adjoining strong closet next the
portico of the southern front.
" When Louis was troubled with the gout mass was
celebrated in the dining-room, the altar' being placed
at the east end, and here occurred one of the gravest
incidents of his eventful life.
" On Lady- day, 25th March, 1814, the Royal Family
were at prayers, and Madame Govet, an English lady,
married to one of, the Royal suite, was seated near the
middle window, which commands a view of the road
leading to the lodge, on a sudden she perceived two
post-chaises, each drawn by four horses, rapidly ap-
proaching the house, with white flags displayed, a sight
which provoked an exclamation from her in spite of the
general solemnity of the room. The carriages contained
certain deputies from Bordeaux, who brought intelligence
that the Due d'Angouleme had entered that city with
Marshal Beresford's division of the British army, which
had been received with enthusiasm, that the white
cockade was displayed, and that Louis the Eighteenth
was proclaimed. Hardly was this excitement occasioned
by the most joyous tidings moderated ere Captain
Slaughter, K.H., of the Royal Navy, conducted in
person to his Majesty ano;ber party of deputies,
whom he received off Dunkirk, on board tbe Archer
sloop of war, he commanded, and charged to solicit the
exile to return and take possession of his throne and
kingdom. These gentlemen were ushered into the
library, and the King there signed the celebrated docu-
ment, said to have been suggested by the supple Talley-
rand, stating that be accepted and would observe the
constitution of France. The Rev. Mr. King, who
happened to be present at the ceremony, preserved the
t which the signature w as written, and has since
placed it among the memorabilia in Dr. Lee's Museum,
where it now remains."

THE SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE.
This brigade, which was established previous to the
opening of the Exhibition, not upon a war footing, but
for the purpose of cleaning the boots and shoes of the
many parties who might visit us during the
stirring sea-
son of the Exhibition, has now been connderably cur-
tailed in numbers. In the months of April last, when
first established, it consisted of 63 boys, provided by
the promoters of the Ragged School Union. The
i num-
ber, however, has now been reduced to 30, and
t may
be satisfactory to know, that the earnings of these boys,
for blacking shoes, from the month of April to the close
of the Exhibition, amounted to nearly 6er 00/. Several of
of
them earned as much as 6s. and 79. p day. One
them saved as much as paid for his outfit to enable him
to emigrate. It is the intention of the committee of the
union to set agoing another gang of boys, under their
care, to be called " Mercury Boys," whose business, in
plain terms, will be to run messages for such as may em-
ploy them. They also intend to employ another set,
called a " Brass Band" (not the Pope's), for the purpose
of cleaning door knockers and brass plates. These are
all legitimate callings, and it must be gratifying to see
so many boys, who otherwise would be prowling about
the streets as thieves and vagabonds, earning an honest
living by following them out.

LEADER ON THE LAST FRENCH REVOLUTION.--
Louis Napoleon is a schoolmaster, who, finding that Young
France has got his sum all wrong, has made him rub it clean
out and begin it over again.—Punch.
SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND.—Yesterday
a general court of the governors of this institution was held
at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate hill, the Rev. J. Evans
in the chair. The report stated that since the opening of
the institution in December, 1799, it had anse ered the most
sanguine expectations of its promoters, both in the encou-
ragement it had received from the public and in the results
which had been produced. Upwards of 450 persons had
been returned to their families able in most instances to earn
a livelihood, or at least some considerable portion of it. The
number of pupils had gradually increased from 15 males to
upwards of 150 of both sexes. The receipts fur the past six
months had amounted to 3,4271. Some routine business
having been transacted the meeting separated.
SINGULAR BEETLES.--The forests of oaks in the
district of Montona, near Trieste, have of late been infested
smallextremely small beetle, which pierces an infinity of
holes in trees to the very centre, andends rs them unfit
for any other use than that of fuel. The damage already
done is estimated at several million florins, and it is not
known how it can be,checked.— French Paper.
A LOVE SONG.—l've seen ber out a walking, in
her habit de la rue; and it aint no use a talking, she's
pumpkins and a few. She glides along in beauty, like a
duck up aon lake. 0, I'd be all love and duty, if I only was
h drake.—. New York Express.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT. -- Yesterday morning,
shortly after eleven o'clock, as a respectably-dressed woman
was crossing Ludgate-hill, near the end of Farringdon-
street, she was knocked down by the polo of a Bayswater
omnibus, the wheel passing over her and covering the pave-
ment with blood. She was immediately conveyed to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital in an apparently dying state.
THE LATE FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTFORD.—
Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, Mr. C. J. Carttar, the
Coroner for West Kent, resumed at the Dartford Union the
adjourned inquest on the bodies of Christopher Hoggart,
William Harrison, Thomas Nash, Joseph Loft, James Gold-
smith, Sarah Goodeve, and Ann Brown, the seven unfortunate
persons who lost their lives by
an explosion, which occurred
on Tuesday week, in the premises of Mr. E. Callow, a blast-
Mg rocket-manufacturer, of Joyce's-green. The investiga-
tion lasted upwards of six hours. After a lengthened con-
sultation, the jury returned a verdict " That the deceased
Met their lives from an accidental explosion of blasting
powder in the premises of Mr. E. Callow ;" and added,
" that they were unanimously of opinion that gross careless-
ness had been displayed on the part of Mr. E. Callow in
suffering blasting cartridges to be manufactured in a building
quite unfitted for the purpose, having imperfect floors of wood
and gravel, and suffering the employed to work in nailed
boots and shoes, and in not having any defined rules or re-
gulations, either written or printed, for the guidance or pro-
tection of the parties employed in the premises." The Co-
roner said he perfectly concurred in the verdict of the jury.
AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON RAIL-
WAY. —A special meeting
of the above company was held
yesterday morning, at the
Exchangev Hall, Nottingham.
There was a good attendance of shareholders present. The
chair was occupied by rilr. Norton, of Elton. Mr. Gough
read the terms proposed by the London and North-Western
and Midland Railway Companies for a working agreement
and ultimate lease, which have already been published. The
chairman moved "That the arrangements provisionally
entered into between the London and North-Western and
Midland Companies, mentioned in the circular issued to each
of the proprietors, be confirmed." Mr. Nicholson objected to
the terms, and moved an amendment to the effect " That
this meeting considering the terms offered inadequate, the
same be declined, and that a committee be formed to con-
sider the subject proposed, and to co-operate with the di-
rectors." Mr. Bishop trusted the meeting would support the
chairman.—( Hear, hear.) After some considerable discus-
sion, the chairman put the former part of the amendment,
negativing the adoption of the terms proposed, when it was
almost unanimously carried. After a vote of thanks to the
chairman, the meeting separaod. - •