The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Some time ego we called attention to the
very inadequate provision made by the Legislature
for theinvestigation of charges against the judges of
the county courts, a question which the increase of
their jurisdiction, present and prospective, renders
daily of mere pressing importance. We have now
to call public attention to a train of circumstances
illustrating most fully the defects of the present law,
and casting, we regret to say, no small discredit on
a number of persons occupying judicial situations,
and bound by the nature of their offices to more than
ordinary care and discretion. Some time ago the
Judge of the Liverpool County Court was drowned.
The Earl of Carlisle, upon whom, as Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster, devolved the duty of naming
a successor, selected for the place Mr. Ramshay, of the
Northern Circuit, a gentleman who, in addition to his
other qualifications, possessed the merit of being the
son and grandson of two successive land agents for
his Lordship's family. This gentleman's conduct in
his office gave great dissatisfaction to a large number
of persons in Liverpool, and complaints rained thick
as hail upon Lord Carlisle, who has by the 18th sec-
tion of the County Courts Act the power to remove the
judge for inability or misbehaviour. So forcibly was
Lord Carlisle impressed with the unfitness of Mr.
Ramshay for the situation which he occupied that he
earnestly requested him to resign his office, and
even went so far as to offer that, if he would do
so, he should be indemnified at Lord Carlisle's ex-
pense for the pecuniary loss which such a step would
involve. Mr. Ramshay refusing to accede to this
request, was prevailed upon to discontinue sitting, and
to discharge his duties by deputy until the complaints
against him should be investigated. In this investi-
gation Mr. Sergeant Wilkins appeared as counsel for
Mr. Ramshay. The County Courts Act provides
no means of enforcing the attendance of witnesses to
give evidence on such an occasion, or of examining
those who present themselves on oath, and the result
was, as might naturally have been expected, that Lard
Carlisle, whatever might be his private opinion about
Mr. Remshey's unfitness, did not find in the evidence
adduced sufficient to warrant him in removing him
from his office, Mr. Ramshay was therefore remitted
to his duties as County Court Judge in Liverpool by
a superior who felt so strongly the necessity of his
removal that he had actually engaged to pay him
a thousand a year for life rather than that
he should continue in his office. The first
step of Mr. Ramshay tended to justify Lord
Carlisle's private opinion, and to discredit
his judicial decision. The judge issued cards for a
banquet to be held in his own, court, " in honour of
the great principle of judiciali independence, so long
and so recklessly assailed in this town." The ban-
quet was held accordingly. The Mayor did not
honour it with his presence, though Mr. Ramshay, in
a carriage drawn by four gray horses, with postilions,
waited upon him with an invitation ; but we regret
to say Mr. Mansfield, the police magistrate of Liver-
, l and Mr. Harden, the judge of the Cheshire
County Court, were present at this most unseemly
festival. After dinner Mr. Ramshay delivered a long
and rambling speech, insinuating, we trust without
foundation, that the death of his predecessor was at-
tributable to persecution from the press of Liverpool.
He than narrated the circumstances of his own ap-
pointment, and intimated that, had the decision of Lord
Carlisle been against him, he should have resisted it.
He then expressed his determination to teach the
press of Liverpool to behave themselves better, and
assured them the greater their insubordination the
greater would be their punishmelit. In conclusion
he presented Mr. Sergeant Wilkins with a piece of
plate iu acknowledgment of his services. In return-
ing thanks Mr. Wilkins entreated Mr. Ramshay not
to abuse the vantage ground he had gained, re-
minded him that he could afford to forgive, and
begged him while he judged to entertain mercy. On
drinking the health of a Hungarian gentleman pre-
sent, Mr. Ramshay recited some doggrel verses ex-
pressive of the hope that England, France, and Hun-
gary would fight again the battle of freedom on the
plains of the latter country. Tho sequel of these
proceedings, which explains the threats of the judge
and the deprecation of the sergeant, we gave in our
impression of yesterday. A placard having, been
posted not far from the court, bearing the heading,
" Mr. Ramshay's Opinion of the People of Liverpool,"
the judge dispatched a bailiff to take into custody,
the editor of the Liverpool Journal, by whose direc-
tion this placard, announcing the publication of the
paper, had been issued. Mr. Whitty, the editor,
asked the bailiffs for their authority, and, upon
their being unable to produce any in writing, he un-
der the advice of his attorney refused to attend. A.
scuffle ensued, but the bailiffs were unable to appre-
hend the editor. Finally the Judge condescended to
issue a summons, in obedience to which Mr. Whitty
attended, and was fined 51. under the 113th section of
the County Courts Act, which imposes that penalty
on any person who shall wilfully insult the d ledge or
an officer during their sitting or attendance in court,
and three sums of 51. each, under the 114th section,
for assaults on the bailiffs in the execution of their
duty. In default of payment of each of these sums
of 51, Mr. Whitty was sentenced to four terms of
imprisonment of seven days each. A reporter for
the Albion, who asked for a chair, and on being re-
fused, under the supposition that he was connected
with the obnoxious journal, told the bailiff that he was
as bad as his master, was for this sentenced to a
similar fine. It would be an insult to the common
sense of our readers to comment gravely on these out-
rageous proceedings, or to show by argument what is
transparently clear,—that the placarding question had
nothing offensive in it, and that, if it had, the posting
it at thirty or forty yards from the court was not an
insult to the judge during his sitting or attendance
there. Nor shall we condescend to show that bailiffs
seeking, on the verbal command of the judge of an
inferior court, to drag a free citizen from his dwelling,
are not in the execution of their duty, and have no
claim whatever on the protection of the law. Of
course Mr. Ramshay cannot be allowed to proceed in
this unprecedented career, or to get up a small reign
of terror of his own, for the purpose, as he boasts,
of avenging the fate of his predecessor. If Lord
Carlisle had not sufficient evidence before, he
has it now, and will incur a heavy responsibility if
he allow such proceedings to continue for a single
moment. Of Mr. Ramshay's conduct we are un-
willing to think or write harshly; there is an
eccentricity, an extravagance, and absurdity about
it which seems only too clearly to point out that,
whatever may have been the case before, the mind
of this gentleman is not now in a state for the dis-
charge of judicial duties ; and we sincerely regret
that they in whom the authority is vested should have
permitted him to retain a situation in which he has,
unhappily, had the opportunity, not merely of making
public his infirmities, but of rendering himself liable
to legal proceedings of the most formidable descrip-
tion. We cannot suppose that on a true return to a
habeas corpus any judge would permit a person to
remain in prison under such a sentence; but it is
melancholy to think of the scandal to public justice,
as well as the inconvenience to private persons, which
has been occasioned by the disregard of public
opinion which has retained this gentleman in a situa-
tion long after his bodily illness and mental in-
firmities had become unhappily matters of notoriety.
We cannot conclude without expressing our sur-
prise that the police magistrate of Liverpool, and
the Judge of the Chester County Court, should have
been guilty of the glaring impropriety of attending a
proceeding so exceptionable and objectionable in its
character as a banquet given by a judge in his own
court to commemorate his own acquittal, and which,
in addition to every accessory which would aggravate
its indiscretion and bad taste, was sure to be viewed as
an insult by many of those to whom it is their duty
to administer justice. Singular and mixed also must
have been the feelings of the Learned Sergeant who
figured so conspicuously on the occasion—pleasure at
the receipt of the splendid present, tempered by pain
at the speech by which it was accompanied, and
which only too clearly proved that the eloquence
which it rewarded had been exerted in vain—exulta-
tion at the triumph of past advocacy, mingled with
well-grounded apprehensions of future indiscretion on
the part of his client. Now that all these rejoicings
are at an end, it only remains for Lord Carlisle im-
mediately to remove their object from his judicial
situation, and save him from that ruin which a few
more such exhibitions as those of last Monday must
infallibly bring upen him.
ADVERTISER.—We yesterday published an
article under the head, " The Judge and the Bill-
sticker." To-day we give much more copious details
of the circumstances wider which the functions of the
bill-sticker were interfered with. The matter alto-
gether reads more like romance than reality. It is
one of the most extraordinary affairs with whi
ch the
judicial character has ever been mixed up in this
country. Mr. Ramshay, the Liverpool Judge, and
Mr. Whitty, the Liverpool newspaper editor, are not
the only persons interested in the matter. Judges
and journalists everywhere, and the public also, are
affected by the issues which have been raised by this
collision between Mr. Ramshay and Mr. VV bitty.
Hitherto it has been the prevailing belief in this
country that a judge's conduct was a legitimate
subject fur fair and temperate discussion. And it
certainly has been the practice of news-
papers to express themselves very freely on the
conduct of our judicial functionaries, whenever
it was thought that circumstances called for the
expression of their opinions. We have not, we are
aware, any right to deal with the motives of those
who are entrusted with the administration of publics-
justice. However erroneous we may deem their de-
cisitihs to be, we would not, on that account, be justi-
fied in arraigning the integrity of their characters.
Not the least extraordinary part of this affair is the
fact that the offended judge did not know the con-
tents of the paragraph at which he was so indignant,
when he instructed his officers to bring the proprietor
and editor of the Liverpool Journal before him. lie

not only, on his own confession, had not seen it, but
had not the remotest idea of its nature. For anything
he knew to the contrary, it might have been penned
in strains of the highest eulogy. The heading of the
paragraph in the placard which was offensive to Mr.
Psarnshay was simply " Mr. Ramshay's Opinion of
the People of Liverpool." Possibly he may have
been conscious that he had recently expressed
some opinion not particularly flattering to
that people ; but then how was he to
know, not having seen the article, nor learnt its
character from any second party, that the editor did
not indorse his " opinion of the people of Liverpool,"
and hold it up to the gaze of the world as the soundest
and most enlightened opinion which either judge,
jury, or private individual, ever expressed? But it
is right our readers should be enabled to form
their own opinion.of the article which stirred up such
deep indignation In the soul of this judicial func-
tionary. The article is not long, and therefore it has
all the greater claims to a place in this department of
our paper. Here is the incriminated paragraph.—
" In a case," says the Liverpool Journal, " before
the Judge of the County Court yesterday, in which
W. Holrinn, a shoemaker, of Edge-hill, claimed
nineteen shillings for goods supplied to R. Fox, the
latter having a set-off against the plaintiff for board
and lodging supplied to the plaintiff's son, a boy, his
Honour expressed himself in rather strong language
with
this
to the characteristics of some people
m tins part of the country. The plaintiirs
wife had observed that the boy was in a very weak
state or health, and on one occasion when at Holrum'e,
she proposed to take him home with her to Rainhill,
where he would be attended to, and have the benefit
of pure air. From some cause the boy was brought
hack to his parents at the expiration of a month, and
the set-off was a demand of 5a a-week for board and
lodging, as previously agreed on. His Honour cha-
racterised the conduct of the plaintiff as unfortunately
like that of many persons in this partoftliepercombnletmry;
arid which to him (the judge) vas a perfect
they appeared to have not the slight: st regard to the
solemnity of an oath, and were equally destitute of the
feelings of humanity. The defendant, with the most
praiseworthy motive, had made a proposition to the
boy's parents, which they no doubt jumped at with
avidity. The ss. a week charged by the defendant
for the boy's board and lodging was a very mode.
rate charge, yet the plaintiff attempted to deny the
agreement, and had told a positive falsehood with
respect to the time the boy was at Rainiull., He be-
lieved that nearly all that had been stated by the
plaintiff was false, and he therefore had great pleasure
in giving a verdict for the defendant." Few of our
readers, we presume, will differ from us, when we say
that we have rarely met with anything more harmless
than the paragraph we have just quoted. It is inno-
cence itself, compared with articles relative to the
conduct of judges, which appear, from time to time,
in the metropolitan journals. And yet it is the rarest
thing in the world, to see any of our metropolitan
judicial functionaries embarking in a crusade against
the newspaper press, on the ground of alleged
departures from that respectful treatment which is
supposed to be due to the dispensers of justice.
It will be observed, that in the incriminated para-
graph, it so happens that there is not a single word
in the shape of censure or of animadversion in any
shape on the: character, judicial or otherwise, of
this county court judge. The paragraph, which
has created so great a commotion in Liverpool, and
winch will attract attention in all parts of the coun-
try, consists simply of a narrative of what took place
in Mr. Ramshey's court on a particular day. In
other words, it is purely a report of a judgment
which the Learned Judge delivered in a case which
came before him. For ourselves, we must own that
some of the observations of this judicial functionary,
were particularly inviting of remark. And had the
circumstances occurred in Lcndon, where, somehow
or other, we use greater liberty of speech than they
do in the provinces, the chances aro ten to one that,
instead of a mere simple narrative of what took
place—a report of what fell from the judicial
lips, he would have had to encounter no smell
amount of leading-article thunder. Our only wonder
is, that the Liverpool journals, in reporting such
a case, had so much control over their editorial
tempers, as to abstain from canvassing freely and
lulty some of the startling " opinions" expressed in
this judgment of the functionary who presides over
the county court of that place. However, that is
their affair, not ours. Here the public would have
charged the press with a flagrant dereliction of duty,
had such a case occurred in the metropolis, and we
passed it over without animadversion. But the cha-
racter of the paragraph is not the point in dispute.
The question is, whether it be contrary to the con-
stitution of this country, that the press should discuss
calmly and temperately the sayings and doings of
judges—just as they are confessedly at liberty to
discuss the sayings and doings of other servants of
the Crown and of the public. The matter most
be brought to an issue. It cannot rest where
it is. An appeal must be made to an-
other court. The judgment of a higher tri-
bunal than that of the County Court of Liverpool,
must be obtained—a tribunal whose proeeediegs have
been hitherto characterised by the decorum becoming
the dignity which we are accustomed to associate with
the judicial functions. The appeal must be made to a
tribunal whose decision will be respected. But there
are circumstances connected with this case to which
we have not yet alluded. The way in which Mr.
Whitty was brought before the bar of the
court, or rather the way in which it was,
in the first instance, attempted to bring him
before that tribunal, was in happy keeping with
the whole affair. On two several occasions the
officers of the court went to drag him before the judge
without a warrant, and it was not until Mr. Whitty
threatened them with something very like " an assault
and battery," if they dared to lay hands on him with-
out a warrant, that they bethought themselves of
going about their work in a legal manner. But we
must defer any further allusion to the subject, until
we have a more ample report of the case before us,
than that which appears in our paper to-day. Tee
result was, that Mr. Whitty was sentenced to pay a
penalty of 51. each on three cases of assault, and seven
days' imprisoment each for two cases of alleged assault
on the officers of the court.

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH
CALAIS, SEPT. 30.—The completion of this under-
taking has been marked with great rejoicings on this
side the Channel. The line of communication be-
tween the two coasts was fully established on Sunday
evening, about five o'clock, and the electric wire,
after three days had been consumed in stretching it
across the straits, was brought up on the French coast
at Sanngate, about three miles below Calais, whence
it was carried underground to the telegraph station
of the Great Northern of France Railway at Calais.
Electric currents were passed from coast to coast, and
messages sent the same evening; but on Monday a
series of experiments were tried with the most satis-
factory results; and as the same results were
achieved today, the great enterprise may now
be regarded as actually finished and complete.
Early on Monday morning a congratulatory message
to the President of the French Republic was sent di-
rect from England to Paris ; also to the King of
Prussia and the Emperor of Austria, at Berlin and
Vienna ; and messages were also transmitted
to London, from the principal cities of Europe
included in the continental system of telegraphic com-
munication. During the whole of Monday the town
of Calais presented the appearance of elite, and num-
bers of the inhabitants congregated on the ramparts
watching with interest and wonder the various expe-
riments which were tried with the submarine wires.
In the evening an entertainment was given, at the
Hotel de Ville, to those English gentlemen, promo-
ters of the undertaking, who were on the spot and
had assisted in its completion. These were Sir James
Carmichael, Mr. Crampton, C.E., Mr. Wollaston, and
Mr. Tatham, of the Gutta Percha Company. M.
Mayer, the mayor of Calais, presided; and, in addi-
tion to the English guests, there were present MM.
Legros Devot, representative du Peuple ; Duhamel,
councillor of state, and member of the Academy of
St. Petersburgh ; Dupont, vice-consul of Russia; and
M. Bonkom, British consul, together with the prin-
cipal inhabitants of Calais and thteeolfipereereseeodfitehges gar-
rison.the During the whole of h
utmost harmony prevailed, and after dinner the
English gentlemen were conducted over the Museum
of the town, where it was determined that a portion
of the electric coil should in future be placed in juxta-
position with the balloon of the celebrated aeronaut,
Blanchard, who, in 1795, made his first supramarine
voyage from Dover to Calais.
[A

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in Bell's Life in London on Saturday. Price of Bell's Life
Sixpence. Bell's Life is published in time for all the early
railways and Saturday morning mails. Average sale of
Bell's Life Thirty Thousand.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—During the present year of
1851 The Observer has published over two hundred folio
columns of the most interesting particulars of the contents
of the Great Exhibition, chiefly original, and collected and
penned by two gentlemen of The Observer establishment,
who visited the Exhibition daily for that purpose, and for
The Observer only. The extensive publication of The Oh-
server commences at five o'clock on Sunday mornings, in
time for all the Sunday morning railways. A Monday's
edition, which is best for the country and abroad, at four,
Monday afternoons.
Two JUDGES DISFRANCHISED.—On Friday, at the
Middlesex Divisional Registration Court held at West-
minster, the names of Sir John Romilly, Master of the
Rolls, and Lord Cranworth were struck oif the list of voters,
the former for having changed his residence without giving
notice to the overseers; and the latter for having sold the
chambers in right of which he held his qualification.
No FLATTERY..—" Can you tell ma where Mr.
Smith lives, Mister?" " Smith—Smith—what Smith ?
There are a good many of that name in these parts: m
name is Smith." "Why, y
I don't know his other name
but he's a sour, cross, and crabbed sort of a fellow, and they
call him Crab Smith." " Oh, I suppose I'm the man."

A 1111R.4CLE FOR FATHER NEWMAN.
The nivers contairwd the following in its number
of Saturday last. As Dr. Newman is so eager to
swallow everything miraculous, this new miracle will
gratify his taste:—

There is much talk at Rome of an extraordinary
cure which has taken place in the very palace of the
Vatican. The following is the manner in which this
prodigious fact is described, and which will, without
doubt, become the subject of a judicial inquiry :
"A young girl, of about 20 years of age, whose
family is employed in the domestic side of the palace,
had contracted a bad fever, owing to the loss of her
father a little time before, as well as to the influence
of the season, which has multiplied at Rome diseases
of this kind, and by which a great number of victims
have fallen within the last few months.

" Notwithstanding the enlightened efforts of the
doctor of the pontifical ' family,' and of her parents,
the young invalid was soon at the last extremity. Toe
vice cure of the palace (which, as is known, is a foun-
dation), a member of the Augustin order (Monseig-
neur the Slcristan of the same order is thy titular

cure) had administered to her the sacrament of ex-
treme unction, and had recited the prayer recom-
mending her soul. Her last sigh was hourly ex-
pected.
" For the sake of enablicg our readers to under-
stand the prodigy about to be related, it is necessary
to state that during the course of the malady the vice
cure had several times engaged the pious patient to
invoke the aid of a venerable servant of God, of the
Augustin order, whose 'beatification is about to
be declared, and he had even mixed in the potions
given to such girl some little fragments of the
clothes of the venerable man—(old clo'). On the other
hand, according to the usage of religious families,
they had carried into the (member of the dying per-
son the Santo Bambino de l'Ara-Cceli, demanding of
these last resources of the faith a cure no longer in
the reach of human science to bestow.
"Let us return to the bed of the dying girl, whom
we find in a profound sleep from which she shall soon
awaken to relate with smiles on her lips how she
had seen the infant Jesus, having at his side a
venerable servant of Gad, clad in the habit of the
order of St. Augustin. She adds that she feels
herself cured, but very week, and she asks for a cup
of broth to give her strength. The broth is given to
her, although the request is regarded as coming from
one in the last agitation of dying; but the sick girl,
who had felt the action of grace, end who knew well
that she was cured, rises, throws off all the blisters, of
which not a trace was left on her body, and on the
following day repaired to the Church of l'Ara Ceeli,
At more than half a league diseent, to thank the Santo
Bambino and the servant of God who had restored
her to life and health.
" You may easily comprehend the sensation that a
fact of this kind must have produced upon a popula-
tion so full of faith, especially upon the eve of the
ceremony of the 21st, which will put solemnly upon
the altar, in placing him amongst the blest, the vene-
rable Father Ciavier, of the Society of Jesus, and at
the close of the expiatory triduo which has been cele-
brated at Saint Andre del la Valle in reparation of
the sacrilegious outrage committed against the Ma-
donna du Vicolo dell Abate Luigi."
Our readers will be obliged to us for saying some
words about this ceremony, and the cause which led
to it.

Last year Colonel Nardoni, assailed by two assas-
sins, providentially escaped death. It so happened that
the theatre of this event was precisely under the Ma-
donna placed at the corner Du Vicolo dell' Abate
Luigi. The Colonel attributed his escape to the pro-
tection of the Holy Virgin, and out of gratitude caused
the image which had so protected him to be carefully
restored, for owing to the isolation of the place it had
been much neglected.
Demagoguism, as it appears, owed a grudge to the
Queen of Heaven, for having saved a man whose
death would have been so precious to the Republican
cause, and a sacrilegious and democratic hand some
time ago smashed with stones the crystal which se-
cures the sacred image, and mutilated its blessed fea-
tures. This brutal outrage having filled the town
with horror, his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar,
yielding to entreaties, ordered a solemn triduo,
which took place the 14'h, 15th, and 16th of the
month. The image so outraged by demagogues was
placed on the grand altar of the church in the midst
of an infinitude of tapers, which crowned it as with a
diadem of fire, and for three days she received the
homage, the invocations, and the tears of a faithful
people. On the evening of the third day, in the midst
of singing and illuminations, the holy image was
borne in procession and replaced in the corner it had
occupied, the people crying " Viva Maria !"
To this account the Univcrs adds the following :
" Our correspondent, in a postscript, states that on the
night of the 19th, the Madonna da Vicolo Deo Mer-
cante, near the place Trojan, had been, to use the ex-
pressive language of the Roman people, assassinates,
and thrown into the dirt. It supposed that. in this
instance, Heresy has lent its hand to Demagoguism."

MR. FOX, IILP., AND THE HOUSE OF
LORDS.

" The House of Lords is as safe," says Mr. Fox,
"as it deserves to be." Whatever may be Mr. Fox's
estimate of the deserts of that body, we think he wilt
not find the country so ready to sweep it away ; and
while the House of Lords remains, the training of its
future members in the popular arena of the Lower
House is one of the best guarantees for the
harmonious working of the Constitution. When
some one expressed to the King of Hanover
his surprise at the marked success with which
that monarch had weathered the storms of 1848,
when all other German thrones were shaken or
overthrown, he answered, " It would be a strange
thing if I, who have passed forty years
in an English Parliament, did not know better
how to conduct my affairs than these hereditary
despots." What the House of Lords was to the
King of Hanover, the House of Commons is to the
heir of a peerage; and whatever Mr. Fox may say to
the contrary, the prudence and moderation which the
Upper House have shown on those occasions in
which the will of the people and the supprsed inte-
rests of the aristocracy have clashed, are due to that
sound political training, and that practical apprecia-
tion of the popular spirit, which a large number of its
members have acquired in the House of Commons.
The condemnation which Mr. Fox passes upon
Lord John Russell is, we fear, scarcely less appli-
cable to himself :—" His tendency is always to
look to the narrow, rather than to the broad and
expansive." The member for Oldham is the slave
of words—he cannot endure the name of a " lord,"
and he loses his temper at the here notion of a
bishop. It is not by efforts made in such a
spirit that the cause of reform will be advanced, or
any real and solid popular progress he achieved. That
is a work which must be undertaken in a statesman-
like temper, and with generous and comprehensive
views—views alike devoid of the class jealousies which
Mr. Fox imputes to Lord John Russell and the
Whigs, and of those which he unquestionably displays
in his own person.—Mornintr Chronicle.

A FATAL DIJI.L.
In Mr. Commissioner Phillips's " Life of Curran," he
gives the following anecdote connected with the cele-
brated duel between Mr. Daniel O'Connell and Mr.
D'Esterze:—" Being one of those who accompanied
O'Connell, he beckon©d me aside to a distant portion
of the very large field, which had a slight covering of
snow. Phillips,' said he, • this seems to me not a
personal but a political affair. I am obnoxious to a
party, and they adopt a false pretence to cut me off.
I shall not submit to it. They have reckoned without
their host, I promise you. lam one of the best shots
in Ireland at a mark, having, as a public man, considered
suchunprwohvoalit
saayggrteossyioonu. present.aslthmeaybe s
it a duty to prepare for ray own protection against
ructo mw s re-
memberelf
and then skill is out of the question ; but, if I
am not, my antagonist may have cause to regret his
having foroed me into this conflict.' The parties were
then placid on the ground at, I think, twelve paces,
each having a case of pistols, with directions to fire
when they chose after a given signal. D'Esterre rather
agitated himself by making a short speech disclaiming
all hostility to his Roman Catholic countrymen, and
took his ground, somewhat theatrically crossing his
pistols on his bosom. They fired almost together, and
instantly on the signal. D'Esterre fell mortally
wounded. The greatest self-possession was displayed
by him. I deemed it a duty to narrate these details in
O'Connell's lifetime whenever I heard his courage
questioned, and justice to his memory now prompts me
to record them here."

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
Tho following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From Sept. 17 to Sept. 23; Passengers,
Sept. 14 to Sept. 20 : Passengers,
238,768 E; total, €96,660 f.
45R7,08u92EfN. ;. oFordosna,
122,292 f.; goods, 81,290 f.; total, 203,582 E
HAVRE.—From Sept. 14 to Sept. 20: Passengers,
46,845 f.; goods, 37,658 f. ; total g1,495E
ORLEANs.—From Sept. 15 to Sept. 21: Passengers,
108,908 E ; goods, 117,181 E; total, 226,089 f.
BORDEAUX.—From Sept. 9 to Sept. 15: Passengers,
81,808 E; goods, 46,405 E; total, 128,213 E
VIERZON.—From Sept. 15 to Sept. 21 : Passengers,
42,2491'.; goods, 38 036 E
NANTES.—From
Sept. 13 to ,Sep't. 19 : Passengers,
46813 E; goods, '
23.764f' • total, 70 577 f
:,TRASBURG.—Fiom Sept. 17 to Sept.. 23: Passengers,
139,076 E; goods, 84,936 E; total, 224,012 f.
13ALE.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14 : Passengers,
35,483 f.; goods, 18,111 E; total, 53,594 f.
MONTEREAU.—From Sept. 10 to Sept. 16; Passengers,
16 271 f.; goods, 12,636 f.; total, 28,907 E
MARSEILLES.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 16: Passengers,
55,227 E; goods, 26,464 f.; total, 81,691 f.
LIONS.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 : Passengers,
284,308 f.; goods, 81,788 E; total, 366,096 f.
CHARTRES.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14: Passengers,
35,460 E; goods, 38,213 E; total, 73,673 f.

Rose Tpmisier is to be tried again by a Court of
Appeal.

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