The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent horn the General Post-ernes
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.)

When made up in From what Wh PLACES. General Post-ofEce port die-e n
uue.
London.: petalled.
America (by Brit. pkt.)N.Tene 6 Liverpool • • Juno 9
America (by U.S. pkt.) Nl.Tune 10 .. Liverpool ..
America (by U.S. pkt.)3lkfune 18 .. ..ISouthampt. June 12
Africa ( West coast).. Ni lath of the month Plymouth June 3
Alexandria* • • • Nll9th & 30th of mo. Dover .. June la
Belgium •• •• NlDaily Dover .. Daily
Brazil • .4 M "9th of the month Southampt. (June 12
Buenos Ayres 49th of the month Southampt. 'June 12
California(viaCha,lres)3l"l7th of month Southampt. June 5
Cape of Good Hope N"l4th of month Plymouth.. Juno 3
Constantinople* •• •• 11,7 th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. June 10
Central America M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Juno 5
Channel Islets N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Tu. Th•Sa
Chili .• •• .• • 111.17 th of the mouth Southampt. June 20
France M&N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedaily
Greece* •• .. .. N 7th 17th27th of mo Dover .. June 10,
Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Holland .. • • .. M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Moil.Tlact
Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the moathiSouthampt. Juno 20
Ireland .. •• 31 &N Twice daily "Holyhead Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) 31 20th of the month"Southampt. Jane 23
India (viaMarsellies) N 7th& 24th ofmonthDover •• June 18
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .. 31 20th of the month Southampt. June 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) N 7th&2olsofmonth Dover •• "June 18
Mexico •• •• AI 2d of the month.. Southampt. June 5
Madeira .. •• 31 9th of the month Southampt. June 12
Malta* 17th,17th,19th,27th } Dover June 10
& 30th of month
Naples* .. • • .. N sth 15th 25th of mo" Dover .• , June 12
Papal States* .. N:sth 15th 25th of mo'Dover IJune 12
Peninsular.. •• 3117th 17th 27th of mu Southampt. June 16:
Peru •• •• •• • • 3[l7th of the month ISouthampt. June 20
Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover • • June 12
31
West Indies .. "17th of the month Southanapt. Jurie 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) 31,2 d of the month .. Southampt. /Julie 5

West Indies Mil7th of the month
West Indies (except
Havana & Nassau) Mi
The mails to those CI
French packet via Mansell
CALI FOHNIA.— Malls to
ars now despatched and di

2d •f the month .
ountries thus mar:

!Southampt. /June 5
Led (*) are conveyed by

and from CaWorn!:
Me by every Ameri,

la, via tho United State
can packet.

MUNIFICENT DONATIONS TO THE ROYAL ORT/10-
rxinc Hosrrrar..—Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert have subscribed 1001. to the Royal
Orthopaedic Hospital, in addition to which the committee have
received many other donations, including 50/. from the trus-
tees of the Cholmondeley Charities, 50/. from Quarles Harris
and Sons, and a promise of 500/. from " Anonymous" when
9,500/. shall have been subscribed towards the building fund
of the institution.
THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION.--111 a prospectus of
the forthcoming" History of the Restoration," by Lamartine,
circulated among the booksellers of nearly every European
capital, the associated proprietors, Messrs. C. Gosselin, rag-
nerre, Fume, Lecos, and Lippert, call the attention of their
confreres to the fact, that from the number of piratical
houses each one can. sell lout,a comparatively small edition, and
that by means of a large edition from one setting of the
types, they will be able to supply copies of the original and
authorised editions of works at such a price that the pirates
cannot successfully compete with them. If the European
publishers will assist them in the good work of this experi-
ment, the copyright question, so far as the piracy of French
books in Europe isconcerned, will be settled without the in-
tervention of diplomatists or ministers.—Literary Gazette.
BRIGHTON.--It is stated in Lyell's Principles of
Geology, that in the reign of Elizabeth the town of Brighton
was situated on that tract where the Chain Pier now extends
into the sea; that in 1665 twenty-two tenements still re-
mained under theglifls ; that no traces of the town are per-
ceptible; that the sea has resumed its ancient position, the
site of the old toren having been merely a beach abandoned
by the ocean for ages. On referring to the "Attack of the
French on Brighton in 1545," as represented in the engraving
in the Arduraiagia, April 14, IS3I, I find the town standing
apparently just where it is now, with "a folde in the mid-
dle," but with some houses on the beach opposite what is
now Pool-valley, ete the east side of which houses the French
are landing; the beach end of the road from Lewes.-11'o :es
and Queries.

VALUE OF TIME TO " CHEAP TRAIN" TRAVELLERS.
—The York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company are said to
have had a clause introduced into a recent Parliamentary
Bill of theirs, authorising the company to reduce the speed
of "cheap trains"from twenty to twelve miles an hour. It
seems to be considered that time is "of no consequence" to
those who cannot afford to pay high fares, whereas it is pre-
cisely these to whom time is, in most cases, vitally valuable.
A man with independent means could afford to journey lei-
surely, and to defray the increased expenditure incidental to
lengthened delays,
,but it is far otherwise with the, usual oc-
cupants of "cheap' trains," and suah checks on speed as
those just alluded to, can only tend to re-contract the public
habits of locomotion within the narrow limits of the old jog-
trot coaching system, and torender " cheap trains" themselves
profitless to the companies, because useless to the public,—
Builder,

breast. We saw no blood till we took her clothes off.
The wound was about an inch lonc, and deep. We sent
for a surgeon. The prisoner said' he had not done it;
she had run against the knife. I saw knife on the
table. It was a broad table knife, with a round point.
Police constable Walker here produced the knife.
Mr. Francis Browne—I am partner with Mr. Finch,
the surgeon. I was called on about eleven o'clock last
night. A man came to our home and said a woman had
been stabbed. I found a wound about three inches below
the left nipple; the woman was in a state of collapse,
and had fainted. I thought it necessary that what she
might have to state should be taken down, as she was
in very considerable danger at this time, and there was
little probability of her recovering from ouch a wound.
It was an inch lonr,.

Mr. BEADON—Do you think if we were to take the
prisoner down to the house, so as to take the woman's
deposition in hii presence, it would be too much for her?
Mr. Browne—l think there can be no objection whatever,
as reaction has set in.

Mr. Beadon, the magistrate, with Mr. Alfred Taylor,
the chief clerk, and Mr. Browne, the surgeon, accompa-
nied by Mr. Bicknell, the superintendent, then proceeded
to visit the injured woman, police-constables Walker and
Oatley, and the prissner.

Mr: Beado❑ then administered the oath, and the poor
creature said—My name is Elizabeth Eastwood; I am
the wife of William Eastwood. We live at the Point. I
was sitting in my rocking chair between nine and ten
o'clock last night on the opposite side of the room to my
husband. There was nobody else there. Some angry
words passed while ho was eating his supper, and he had
his knife and fork in his hands; he ran at me and stabbed
me. I said, "You have killed me;" and be said, "Oh
Elizabeth, don't say that." As I expect to die, that is
the truth.
The wounded woman then signed her deposition, and
the prisoner was taken back to the court, from which ho
was remanded till Monday next.

' UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JUNE 4.—PRIZE. FOR AN ENGLISII POEM
ON A SACRED SUBJECT.—A benefaction of 1,0004
Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, having
I been offered to the University, the interest to be given
. as a prize for an English poem on a sacred subject,
which shall be awarded, under certain regulations, once
in every three years, and the same having been accepted
by convocation on February 15, 1848, the following sub-
. ject is proposed for the year 1854:---" The Dedication
of the Temple." The compositions must consist of not
less than sixty, nor more than three hundred lines. The
candidates must be members of the University, who at
the time when the subject is announced shall have passed
the public examination for the degree of B.A. The
compositions are to be sent under a sealed cover to the
Registrar of the University on or before the Ist day of
December, 1853, and the prize is to be adjudged on the
Ist day of June, 1554. The author is required to con-
ceal his name, and to distinguish his composition by
what motto ho pleases; sending at the same time his
name and the date of his public examination, sealed up
under another cover, with the same motto inscribed upon
it. The composition to which the prize shall have
been adjudged is not to be recited; but printed copies
are to be sent by the author to the Chancellor, heads of
colleges and halls, the proctors, the judges of the compo-
sitions, the professore, the founders of the prize, and to
the Bodleian Library.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 4.—SIR WILLIAM BROWNE'S
MEDALS.-Sir William Browne having bequeathed three
gold medals, to he given annually to such resident un-
dergraduates as shall compose the best Greek ode, in
imitation of Sappho; the best Latin ode, in imitation of
Horace; and the best Greek and Latin epigrams; the
first after the model of the Anthologia, and the second
after that of Martial; the medals for the Greek and '
Latin odes have been adjudged to Mr. F. V. Hawkins,
of Trinity College, the late successful candidate for the
Camden medal.

Subject—Greek Ode— Oraculorum defectis.
Subject—Latin Oie—Carolus Albertus Sardinia Rex.
The medal for the epigram was not adjudged.
DIVINITY.—The Norrisisn Professor of Divinity will
commence his lectures for Michaelmas term, 1851, on
Saturday, November 8.

MR. EMERSON on SLAVERY in A2IIERICA.
The following letter was sent by Mr. H. W. Emerson,
in answer to an invitation to attend the annual meeting
of an Anti-Slavery Society held at Concord, United
States, on the 3rd ult.:—

" New York, 18th March, 1851.
" Dear Friend,—l bad more reasons than one to regret
leaving home at this time, and, if my present engage-
ments were not of two seasons' standing, I should have
made every effort to relieve myself. For your liberty
meeting, I thing it has a certain importance just now;
and, really, at this moment, it seems imperative that
every lover of human rights should, in every manner,
singly or socially, in private and in public, by voice and
by pen—and, first of all, by substantial help and hospi-
tality to the slave, and defending him against his hunters,
enter his protest for humanity against the detestable
statute of the last Congress. I it a subject of
conversation in all cars and steamboats, and everywhere
distributing society into two classes, according to
the moral feasibility of individuals on one part, and
their habitual docility to party leading on the other. I
do not know how the majority of today will be found
to decide. Sometimes people of natural probity and
affection are so wrapped by the habit of party, and show
themselves so unexpectedly callous and inhuman, that it
seems we mast wait fur the Almighty to create a new
generation a little more keenly alive to moral impres-
sions, before any improvement in institutions cuu be
looked for. But, as far as I have observed, there is, on
all great questions, a tide of undulation in the public
mind, a series of actions and re-actions. The momentary
interest carries it to day; but, presently, the advocates of
the liberal principle are victorious—and the more entirely,
because they had persisted unshaken under evil report.
And, as justice alone satisfies everybody, they aro sure to
prevail at last.
" It' the world has any reason in it, it is for ever safe
and successful to urge the cause of love and right. I
know it is very needless to say this to you, and others
like you, who cannot, if they would, help serving the
truth, though all the world be gone to worship Mam-
mon. But it is the only answer I know how to make
to our mathematical compatriots. So, wishing you a
day of happy thoughts and sympathies on Thursday, I
remain, yours respectfully and gratefully,
" R. W. EMERSON."