The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-01 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1661

fixed by the law as the criterion, and if
enty-six days, or less, then the publication was to be
deemed a newspaper, and if more a chronicle or his•tory.
In his view of it, the whole question turned on the dis-
tinction between news and history, which he thought
had been clearly settled by the Legislature. Ho agreed
with his Brothers Platt and Martin that judgment ought
to.be given for the defendants.
Only one Judge disagreeing, the judgment of the
Court was accordingly entered for the defendants.

. FINE ARTS.
GOING "WITH" the StREAM and GOING
" AGAINST" the STREAM, Thomas Miean,
Haymarket. _ . .

Exquisitely beeutiful, in the poetry both of their
conception and their treatment, are the two en-
gravings recently published under the above
designation. They rourtray incidents of
anything but unfrsquent occurrence More and
after marriage. They are symbolical of the sorrows
and delights of courtship. They are emblematic
of the chequered shade and shine of the passion.
And in this manner they constitute a very charm-
ing sequel to those two delightful pictures of
chess, where the players are thinking more of the
"game of life" than of the game of the moment.
The present companion plates, we doubt not, will
vie with their predecessors in popularity ; for while
the other engravings referred to possessed the merit
of pictorial witticisms, these are eminently entitled to
praise for something yet more commendable, we mean
for grace and elegance of sentiment. " Going with'
the Stream," pourtrays in truth, as the illustrative
verses imply, "a picture of the blush of life."
Every thing is bathed in sunshine, and gilded
with the equable light of placidity a Pla-
cidity pervading not merely the features of
the loving couple, hut every individual accessory.
The boat gliding smoothly onward " with "
the current, the hazy sheen floating off into the dis-
tance—and then the sweet and ineffable softness of
expression thrown into the faces of the hero and
heroine Every detail is one of kindred fascination.
Very different is the opposite side of the medallion—
or rather the intaglio of a delineation stamped by
veracity. The gloss, and calm, and uninterrupted
glow of the scene have vanished—but they have
gone, happily, without taking with them all the love-
liness. There is the boat struggling up "against"
the current with its whole surface fretting into little
angry wavelets, and the mingled wind and sunshine
tearing in jagged gusts and gleams in among the
stalks of the adjacent rushes. The air, the
water, and the vegetation seem to be
alike in a state of blusterous irritation ;
and with these signs of the elements bow accordant
the looks of the youth and the maiden ! They are
both in " a taking" or a " tiff," or whatever else you
may please to call those fitful and moody
intervals known so familiarly as " lovers' quarrels."
'JL'he lesson told by these very beautiful pictures
is one worthy of adorning the walls of a home, and
one too, that while adorning those walls, cannot fail to
appeal beneficially at once both to heart and imagination.
The engravings from the skilful hand of Henry Ro-
binson, must necessarily, in regard to the very gifted
artist, Mr. J. J. Jenkins, from whose drawings
they are taken, tend to enhance and extend his repu-
tation. They will be welcomed by all lovers of art,
we feel assured, as not the least meritorious among
the charming pictures recently published by Mr.
M`Lean, of the Haymarket.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The Decemler general sessions were opened this day
at Clerkenwell, with a calendar containing fifty-ono
names. _ _

Jeremiah Ratcliff, aged 15, was convicted of stealing,
in the dwelling house of Edward Underwood, his master,
a grocer at Islington, a bank-note fur the payment of
101., his property.
A. police-constable stated that the prisoner was
charged (since his arrest on this occasion) with embez-
zling the money of his previous employer.
Upon this representation the Court deferred passing
sentence, to give time for inquiry.
William Daley, aged 25, was indicted for stealing a
half-sovereign, the money of William Coleman, or one
piece of metal, purporting to bo a halt-sovereign, the pro-
perty of the said W. Coleman, who is th© proprietor of
the Paul's Head public-house, in Paul-street, Finsbury.
The wife of the prosecutor stated that on the 9:h
Nov. the prisoner, who had been at a rrffie in a room
upstairs in her house from nine o'clock till nearly twelve,
came to the bar with three others, and call, d for a
quartern of gin. lie put down vs hat appeared to be a
half-sovereign, and she gave him 9s. Bd. change, one of
his friends at the same time putting down a six-
pence, and telling her not to change the gold,
but to take the price of the gin out of that,
whilst another friend threw down a sovereign, and said,
" Take it out of that." This friendly altercation about
payment caused some confusion, in which the prisoner
took up and pocketed the change (9s. Bd.), when the
prosecutrix tried his coin, and found it to be very sus-
picious, if not a false half-sovereign. She told the pri-
soner she thought it was bad money, and he snatched it
off her hand and ran away, She rushed out after him,
calling police, and he was soon overtaken and arrested.
The coin was not found on him. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty, and evidence was given of his being a
member of the swell mob, several times convicted at this
and other courts, an associate of thieves, and a profes-
sional " smasher" from his childhood, notwithstanding
the efforts of respectable parents to keep him out of bad
company and bring him up to industrious habits.
He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)

ASSAULT ON A POLICE-CONSTABLE.—Henry May and
Wm, Lejtune were placed at tho bar, before Mr. Bingham,
charged with being drunk and assaulting police-constable
Mould 123 C.

Mould stated that about 12 o'clock on Saturday night
he was on duty in Sheppard-street, when he saw the
prisoner May, who was the worse for liquor, trying to
force his way into the Duke of York public-house. As
the landlord was on the point of closing the house, he
refused to admit the defendant. The latter, however,
persisted in entering the house, and as he would not go
away when desired, witness took him into cus-
tody. The defendant then struck witness a blow in
the face, and at that moment the prisoner Lejeune came
up and attempted to rescue May from his (witness's)
custody. Witness immediately called to a brother con-
stable who was passing, and they were both conveyed to
the station-house. At the latter place Lejeune struck
him a blow on the side of the head with great force.
May, in defence, pleaded intoxication as the cause of
his acting as represented by the officer, and expressed
his sorrow for what he had done.

Lejeune denied the charge, and said the constable had
spoken falsely.
Police-constable 320 C said he was present at the
station when the prisoners were brought in, and dis-
tinctly swore seeing Lejeune strike Mould on the side
of the head.
Mr. BINGHAM thought the prisoners had acted with
great wrongheadedness, and as a caution fined them 40s.
eaoh.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, Nov. 29.

Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and the Royal Family, walked yesterday morning in
the Park.
The Queen and Prince drove out in the afternoon,
in a pony phaeton.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party.
Nov. 30.

Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and the Royal Family, did not leave the grounds at
Osborne yesterday.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party.

Mr. Henry Berkeley, M.P., transacted business
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
on Saturday. An appeal from the High Court of
Admiralty, " Somes v. Macbride" (the Sir George
g?ymour), was heard. Lord Cranworth, Sir J.
Knight Bruce, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas, and Sir Edward Ryan, attended.

TERMINATION OF THE STRIKE OF MR.

MYERS'S IV 01?KME,N.

Last night a general meeting of the masons and other
workmen on the strike took place at the Temperance
Hall, Broadway, Westminster, to consider fresh terms
offered by Mr. Myers, through the deputation which, at '
his request, had waited upon him to state the result—
% iz., a determination to stand out until the demands were
complied with unconditionally—of the general meeting
held on the previous day at the Craven Head Tavern,
Drury-lane. The terms now offered by Mr. Myers, and
which were regarded as an unconditional surrender by
the strike committee, were—that the men should be
ullowed, if they pleased, to lose as much as one day, or
ten hours per week, without being liable to forfeit the four
o'clock privilege on Saturdays, but not to take any fur-
ther time to themselves without previously applying to
their respective foremen for permission. The hall was
densely crowded, the anxiety manifested as to the result
of the proceedings being increased by an anticipation
that Mr. Myers would himself attend and address the
meeting. Mr. Myers, however, did not appear, and the
chair was taken, at half-past eight, by Mr. Richard
Pickersgill, who said that the terms above stated had
been agreed to by the mon in the employment of Mr.
Myers, but that the assent of the masons of London at
large was necessary, to give full validity to the agree-
ment. Mr. Arnett, corresponding secretary of the
mason's society, briefly narrated the nature of the nego-
tiations which had been carried on between Mr. Myers
and the committee, and recommended the acceptance of
the terms now offered. A long discussion followed, in
the course of which the deputation wore closely ques-
tioned as to the exact nature of the offers made, accord-
ing to the spirit of Mr. Myers's language, and the result
was looked upon as entirely satisfactory. Finally the
resolution was unanimously adopted, that the terms
offered should be accepted ley the men on strike, and a
deputation was appointed to carry the decision of the
meeting to Mr. Myers, and to request his signature, as
promised to the terms. The strike may now, therefore,
be regarded as terminated, after having lasted upwards
of five weeks.—Sunday Paper.

PRESENTATION OF TIIE FREEDOM OF DUNDEE TO
LORD DUNCAN, Friday, in terms of a resolution
formerly agreed to, the magistrates and town council of
Dundee met in the Thistle-ball, for the purpose of present-
ing Lord Duncan, M.P., with the freedom of the town, in
token of their approval of his conduct, especially with
regard to his exertions for the abolition of the window-tax.
The hall was crowded; and amongst those present we ob-
served the Countess of Camperdown, Lady Henrietta Allan,
Lady Elizabeth Duncan, Master and Miss Duncan (the
son and daughter of Lord Duncan), Mr. Leonard Edmonds,
clerk in the House of Lords; Mr. Clayhill, of Inver-
, gow ri ~ "e Lord Duncan, on entering the hall, was loudly
applauded. Provost Thorns, after a complimentary. and
appropriate address, presented the Noble Lord with a
burgess ticket, enclosed .in a handsome morocco case.
rrjeoirtedraDteadneaap"Plawubsoe, said rhtseinbgegvg'els retocel;eetduwrnithhisloufdelloaW"-
townsmen his warm and heartfelt thanks for the mark of
consideration which they had had the kindness to bestow
upon him, and which he esteemed the more highly as it
came from those among whom he had been born and brought
up—from those with whom his family had long been asso-
ciated ; and, above all, from persons for whom, of all others,
he might say he entertained the deepest respect. His Lord-
ship then proceeded to speak of the progress of commerce in
Dundee, which had now, by the self-relying spirit of its
merchants, been raised to the position of the third seat of
commerce in the northern parts of these realms. If any one
thing, he said, could add to his pleasure that day it was to
see present his Honourable Friend Mr. Duncan, who so ably
represented the burgh of Dundee. Many a fight he (Lord
Duncan) had had in the House of Commons, but he had al-
ways had the satisfaction of receiving Mr. Duncan's honest
cheer and supporting vote. After a vote of thanks, moved
by the Provost, to the ladies for their attendance, and a
similar compliment, proposed by Lord Duncan, to the chair-
man, the meeting separated with three cheers for the new
burgess.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.--The fifteenth
anniversary meeting was held on Saturday evening, at the
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Gray, F.R.S., was re-elected president • ' Mr. Reynolds, trea-
surer; and Mr. G. E. Dennes, secretary,

JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—An important legal
question, connected with the liability of retired partners of
joint-stock companies, is likely soon to come before the
courts, an action, we are informed, having been instituted at
the instance of one of the retired partners of the late unfor-
tunate Commercial Exchange Company against certain of
the retired partners, on the ground that at the date of their
o ithdrawal the company was in a state of bankruptcy. The
question is one of the deqest importance to the shareholders
of all joint-stock companies, and should lead to a more care.
' ful investigation than ever into the annual accounts of direc-
tors.—North British Daily Mail.
Lieutenant• Colonel John Cornell Chads, late of
time Ist West India regiment, is appointed President and
Senior member of Council of the Virgin Islands. Captain
James Richard Booth, R.N., is appointed Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of Montserrat. Mr. Robert Duncan Wilmot is ap-
pointed
Surveyor-General of New Brunswick. Mr. Richard
Francis Morgan is appointed a member of the Legi4lative
Council Of ceylom

LITERATURE. with the mountain chains sketched in by Dr. Rit-
THE BOOR OF DIGNITIES. By Joseph tar and Kiepert. In this superb map are revealed
_Haydn: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman& lin a variety of colours, Ist, the granite formation, in-
A wonderful compilation was Mr. 'Lyda' sa Book I eluding the crystalline sehists or metamorphic reeks
of Dates," and not Lss wonderful is his "Ea;01: of due to the action of heat and destitute of organic re-
Dignities." It must be ranked henceforth among the ) mains; 2nd, the primary stratified formation,
most remarkable works ever contributed as guides no organic remains, embracing the intermediate
to human knowledge. Every one,
presume, is or transition serifs, in which organic life is first
familiar enough with the well-known sarcasm upon
developed—and the coal formation ; 3d, the secondary
history which fell from the lips of a famous philo- formation, embracing the sandstones, limestones, rock
sopher. According to his ironical definition, romance salt, chalks and flints—organic remains, gigantic
is scarcely a jot more the produce of the imagination. lizards, saurians, &c. ; 4th, the tertiary formation in
After all, too, he lilts not far wrong—the only really which the present order of creation begins to appear;
reliable record of the human race being comprised in sth, the recent or alluvial, deposits of torrents, or
chronology, and even that sometimes being necessarily rivers forming deltas, &c. ; 6th, the volcanic or
somewhat dubious in its character. What says one of igneous rocks of the tertiary and alluvial epochs, and
the most thoughtful writers of our generation upon also porphyritic and diaretic rocks. Even in making
the same subject, and speaking nearly in the same this hurried and cursory enumeration, it is possible
strain as the philosopher before referred to ? Sir to perceive at a glance the truth of that famous line of
Bulwer Lstton exclaims, in one of his earliest Pope, even when applied to geology.—
and not least remarkable effusions, " Oh, Truth ! " A mighty maze, but not without a plan!"
What a hard path is thine! Does any keep it for Next comes the theoretical survey of the earth's
three inches together in the commonest trifle ? crust, showing the various strata of which it is com-
and yet two sides of my library are filled with histo- posed, together with the principal plants and animals
ries There is a subtle sting in the remark coin- with which itiwas covered—beginning with the simplest
eident with the satirical observation already particu- forms and extending to the monstromi shapes of the Ple-
larised. We acknowledge the accuracy of the siosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Ignanadon, Pterodactylus,
sentence pronounced by both those keen and scruti- Ammonites, Mamtnoth,and Dinotherium. Afterwards
nizing observers—we are compelled to acknowledge we have before us a view of the Phenomena of Vol.
it, reluctantly it is true, but atil fully ; and aware canic Action, showing the reaction of the interior of
consequently of the dubious nature of the ordinary the earth upon its external surface ; a map of the
annals of humanity, we look more confidingly to mountain chains (vertebrzc), and the river systems
Maunder than to Thucydides, to Haydn than to (arteries), of Europe ; another of the mountain
Macaulay. We recognize less likelihood of being chains and river systems of Asia; another of the same
deceived, intentionally or unintentionally, by the in regard to North America ; completed by one of the
chronologist. We behold in the colossal form of sister continent. Subsequently we have a map show- '
history a monstrous shape not unlike that of the fa- ing the distribution of the Temperature of the Air;
brication of Frankenstein. We strip off the hetero- one of the Winds ; and one of the Rains. Added to
geneous materials there found collected together—the them is a hydrographicel map showing the currents
nerves of imputed motive, the muscles of rhetoric, of the ocean, with the principal trade routes—fol-
the veins of philosophy, and the epidermis of lowed by two beautiful companion charts, displaying
style—until we come at last to the only one the geographical distributions of plants, and the
symmetrical portion of the work—the bones of the other not merely this, but the cultivation of all the
skeleton of chronology. %Are prefer, moreover, the important plants used as food for man, showing the
destructive dissection of a man like Me. Haydn than lines, moreover, of Equal Summer and Winter Tem-
the perilous patchwork of a man like Mr. Hume. We peratures. Similar maps are subsequently given us
prefer the reduction of history to its scanty but com- of the distribution of the principal mammiferous
prehensive and harmless outline—rather than its un• animals, as also of the different birds and
wholesome agglomeration into a shape reptiles. Lastly comes a map showing the
" if shape it may be called geographical distribution of the human race, a map
Which shape has none," wholly inestimable to the ethnologist. After the
a shape constructed out of the dead and decaying marvels here enumerated, marvels set forth by Mr.
fragments of antiquity and animated by the genius (;rover with unexampled ability, it were superfluous
breathed into it by the vitalizing powers of the an- to aver that the volume just published in regard to
nalist. More particularly when its dangerous cepa- the enthralling subject of Physical Geography is
cities are borne in recollection—capacities not unfre- one of a most instructive as well as most attractive
quently employed in slaying the hitherto unassailed character. Its merits carry with them the sureties of
reputations of the departed.* Therefore we repeat it, commendation ; and it is, therefore, with no ordi-
the compilations of men like Mr. Haydn are at all nary confidence that we commend the present" Hand
times peculiarly welcome to us—because in them we Atlas" at once and with equal fervour to the atten-
recognise a veracity eminently entitled to our confi- tion of the student and of the philosopher.
dente. In the extraordinary volume lying be-
fore us, entitled " The Book of Dignities,"
we have in this manner tabularly arranged
the principal part of the History of the
World since the earliest records of its inhabitants.
We have catalogues of all the Sovereigns of Europe
from the foundation of their respective states. We
have well authenticated rolls of the official personages
of the British empire, comprising the civil, ecclesias-
tical, judicial, military, naval, and municipal ; be-
ginning with the remotest periods and coming down
to our own generation. Besides these, we have the
Peerage of England and of Great Britain, with a va-
riety:of other lists too multifarious to be here enume-
rated. Among the Princes of England, for example,
we find duly numbered, in addition to the Kings of
the Heptarchy, the Kings before and after the Con-
quest. We descend from Hengist in 455 to Egbert
in 820 ; from Egbert in 827 to Harold in 1065 ; from
William in 1066 to Victoria in 1837 ; passing succes-
sively through the Saxon race, the Danish raee, the
Saxon race re-possessed, the Norman line, the
Plantagenet line, the line of Lancaster, the
House of York, the House of Tudor, the House
of Stuart, and the House of Hanover.
So likewise with the other kingdoms and
principalities of Christendom—in France, from
Pharamond in 418, to Louis Napoleon in 1848, in
Austria from Charlemagne in 800 to Francis
Joseph in 1848, in Hungary, from Stephen in 997 to
the days of Kossuth in 1851. Most marvellous of all,
it seems to us, in the whole of these catalogues, is the
one of the " Popes," as given by Mr. Haydn, begin-
ning at page 64, with St. Peter, in 42, and proceed-
ing, in uninterrupted succession, down to Pius IX. in
1846, his present Holiness. " Between Leo IV. and
the next Pontiff, Benedict III.," says Mr. Haydn,
"an absurd story, not worth refutation, places Pope
Joan.' " Besides the existing kingdom of the earth,
with their Sovereign princes, we find moreover, in
the astonishing volume before us, due mention made
of kingdoms either merged or extinct, such as Suabia
or Burgundy. Then come copious catalogues of Am-
bassadors, Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers
Plenipotentiary from Great Britain to Foreign
States. Afterwards—perhaps of all the most interesting
feature in a work of which every page is an attraction
—we find a most carefully arranged list of all the
administrations of England from the reign of King
Henry VIII. down to the reign of Queen Victoria.
All the great officers of state of England follow;
then come the Speakers 'of the House of Commons,
the Judges of England, the principal ecclesiastical
functionaries, and the governors of the various colonies
from the period of their foundation. Among these we
are amazed to find no mention whatever of the Go-
vernors of Australia, although of all the vast and
scattered possessions of this country that is perhaps
the most remarkable, for various reasons—the most
noticeable of which is the circumstance of its being
sufficiently huge in its dimensions to be regarded
by many less as an island than as a fifth continent.
Altogether the accuracy of the work under consider-
ation is, however, most conspicuous. The labour
requisite for its successful compilation would
be sufficient, one might well imagine, to deter
any man less energetic than .oseph Haydn
from the task upon which he has here ad-
ventured. That Herculean task, nevertheless,
in spite of a thousand bewildering difficulties, he has
accomplished with all but miraculous ingenuity.
He has furnished the curious with an unfailing clue
to the dignities enjoyed by the most of the remarkable
personages of the human family, from times nearly
" lost in the twilight of fable" down to the glaring
notoriety of facts occurring in the present generation.
He has consequently well earned the eulogium which
he cannot fail to receive from all quarters, and has in
his own name affixed :a stamp of enduring popularity
on a work designated aptly enough on its title-page,
" Beatson'a Political Index Modernized."

HAND ATLAS of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
By Edward Gover.
Everyone acquainted with the works of Baron Hum-
boldt and of Mrs. Somerville, will feel grateful for the
appearance of this "Hand Atlas of Physical Geo-
graphy:l Though its assistance is rendered at
once apparent, what must otherwise with the vast
majority have remained altogether incompre-
hensible. It presents to the students in cosmogony
an array of facts not hitherto collected together
within the same compass and with a similar amount
of accuracy. The principal effort of these entrusted
with the supervision of the undertaking before us
seems to have been that of having every detail of the
publication duly and scrupulously authenticated. To
this end the extraordinary compilation of Bergbaus
—a compilation until now accepted on all hands as
faultless and unimpeachable—has been carefully
revised, and the inaccuracies lurking in that wonder-
ful book weeded out in every instance. This, we re-
peat, is the most conspicuous merit of the singular
production here submitted to our scrutiny, but it is
by no means its only excellence. It is something, of
course, to have removed from a work of this particu-
lar description errors which were dignified by the
authority of such a man as Berghaus, errors, too, en-
dorsed by the acceptance of all subsequent geographers.
It is yet more, however, to find this most laudable
emendation accompanied by a variety of other
very remarkable and really inestimable im-
provements. Among these must especially
be commended the introduction of several
additional maps drawn under the immediate superin-
tendence of Dr. Ritter and Dr. Kieppert, of O'Etzel,
Grimm, and other distinguished persons, whose
names are not enumerated. Besides this, it is worthy
of remembrance that the extent of the Great River
Basins, together with the direction and formation
of the mountain chains of Asia and of south-eastern
Europe, have undergone a most cautious series of
alterations, and are consequently given now, we be-
lieve, for the first time free from the blunders detected
in the charts of Professor Berghaus and his followers.
These considerations of themselves would assuredly
be sufficient to secure to the volume published by
Mr. Gover the attention to which we are convinced it
is eminently entitled. Possibly it may be as well to
observe briefly—for the benefit of those not familiarly
acquainted with the study of which the book here
of the
thtehe speci-
fied,c,huanngiveesrsitaylreadAytlasot
~,mtaakdieng,uendreeroutrhsee,
adsiretcht
eionbasoits
noticed is at; once the vale mecum and the
bAegeens
encyclopaedia
—that
the haveiddl e
of his enterprise the " Physikalischer
Atlas'
of Ber-
ghaus, the most astonishing result of the • genius end
the researches of that illustrious professor. Like its
masterly prototype, the " hand Atlas of Physical
Geography," before us, consists of a
maps and illustrations displaying succession of
iistribution of natural the geographical
phenomena---embracing neces-
sarily the divisions of geology, of
hydrography,
of meteorology, and of natural history—that last
and crowning effort in the sequence of Creation.
Foremost comes a comprehensive and magni-
ficent view of the geological structure of the
earth, according to the scheme of Dr. Arnie Boue,

* ka. gr. William Penn.