The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

" On a mode of Computation for excluding Floodwater
from a Set of Gubgiugs at 11(•gular Intervals," and Mr.
Blackweli's "Reboil: of a Series of Experiments on the
Discharge of Water by Overfills," were announced to
be read, and the monthly ballot for members to take
place.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From April 23 to A pril 29: Passengers,
256.5181.; goods, 204,507 E; total, 461,025 f.
ROUEN.—From April 20 to April 26 : Passengers,
80,6341.; goods, 79,51514 total, 160,1491.
HAVRE.—From April 20 to April 26 : Passengers,
32,073 E; goods, 34,7781 ; total 66,851 f.
ORLEANS.—From Apirl 21 to April 27 : Passengers,
94,137 f. ; goods, 118,556 f.; total, 212,69.3 f.
BORDEAUX.—From April 21 to April 27: Passengers,
39,953 f.; goods, 42,8751.; total, 82,8281.
VIERZON.—From April 21 to April 27: Passengers,
47,276 E; goods, 44,094 E; total, 91,370 f,
BOULOGNE.—From April 21 to April 27 : Passengers,
23,3441.; good', 16,1781.; total, 39,5221.
NANTEs.--From April 19 to April 25 : Passengers,
23,5261.; goods, 14,322 f.; total, 37,848 f.
STRASBURG.—From April 23 to April 29: Passengers,
85,8191.; good, 61,354 f.; total, 147,173 E
BALE.—From April 14 to April 20 : Passengers.
21,736 r.; goods, 15,8401.; t0ta1,37,576f.
MONTEREAEL—From April 16 to April 23: Passengers.
11,4371.; goods, 14,284 e.; total, 25,721 f.
MARSEILLES.—From April 16 to April 22: Passengers,
45 6141. ; goods, 21,1961,; total, 66,8101.
LYONS. —From April 13 to April 19 : Passengers,
111,525 f.; goods, 37,9301.; total, 149,4551.
CHARTRES.—From April 14 to April 20: Passengers,
28,4441.; goods, 12,951 f.; total, 41,3951.

FRENCH IGNORANCE OF ENGLISH
MANNERS.
The absurd ignorance of our neighbours the French
upon all matters relating to England is so well known
to our readers, that an illustration of it new scarcely
raises a smile; but we have translated the following ex-
tract from Le Siecle of the 27th April, in the belief that
nothing more ridiculously false or more absurdly at
variance with the manners of Londoners of any rank,
class, profession, or age, has ever been produced. When
we reflect that this is not extracted from a cheap or low
class newspaper, but from a journal which holds the
position in Pavia that our Times or Morning Chronicl
holds in our metropolis, we may allow that if it were
but to undeceive our credulous friends, their visit to
London in this present season, and the attraction of the
World's Fair, will not be valueless:—
" In London people can hardly be said to live during
the day; they are so busy that they hardly have time to
think whether they exist. After dinner the merchants,
gentlemen of fortune, and noblemen go to the theatre:
when the performance is over they adjourn to their
clubs, where they smoke and drink, but this is not the
last nocturnal resort. There yet remains the 'Finish,'
either an ignoble pothouse, or a vast and sumptuous
tavern, so called because the amusements of the night are
finished in these places. In some of them merchant's
clerks and men of that rank drink ale and smoke
abominable tobacco; in others, the fashionable drink the
wines of France and the Rhine—port and madeira, and
smoke the most expensive cigars; but in both orgies are
carried on to the height of brutality. I had frequently
heard of these Finishes,' and a friend of mine, a
Frenchman, who had resided for ten years in London,
offer' d to act as my cicerone to one of them. I accepted
his offer and went. These splendid taverns have a
physiognomy peculiar to themselves. Outside you might
take them for temples of sleep or silence ; but on
passing through a little door, carefully closed and fas-
tened, you are almost bewildered by the blaze of a thou
sand gaslights. You find yourself in an immense hall,
divided into two parts; in the one tables are arranged,
shut up by high partitions, as they are in all English
hotels, and with handsome sofas on each side. Before
you, in the other division of the room, is a sort of stage,
with benches, where splendid women, magnificently
dressed, sit ' on show,' like statues, without speaking or
moving, till some gentleman invites one of them to de-
scend and partake of the luxurious provisions and wines
which are furnished on demand by the waiters. The
habitue of the place arrive about one in the morning.
Many of these' gin palaces' are the daily rendezvous of
the Elite of the aristocracy. These young Lords and
honourable Members of Pediment, who all day have
been stiff and solemn, answering ' Yes' and ' No,' and
not daring to make any further remark on the romances
and literature of the day than shocking' or beauti-
ful,' all these slaves of cant and conventionalism, under
the influence of champagne and the alcohol of madeira
and port, throw off their coats and cravats, open their
waistcoats, and in fact undress in public. The great
amusement at the 'Finish' is to make a poor girl dead
drunk, and then pour some vinegar mixed with pepper
and mustard down her throat, which throws her into
horrible convulsions. This is capital fun! Another game
much appreciated by these fasbionables is to throw
glasses of punch and other liquids over the dresses of
these miserable girls whom they have intoxicated. I
have seen the most gorgeous satin dresses, of which the
original colour could not be discerned amid a confused
mixed of stains of porter, brandy, wine, and coffee.
which made a thousand fantastic patterns. When a
foreigner is present at a scene like this he will see that
there is at least one man who is better understood in
this proud and powerful British empire than Shahs-
pere—it is Fats Taff. About seven or eight in the
morning they retire from the 'Finish.' The servants
call cabs. Gentlemen who can stand search for their
clothes in a heterogeneous mass of great coats, paletots,
coats, and waistcoats. As to the others, the waiters
dress them with the first garments they can lay their
hands on, carry them to cabs, and tell the driver where
the package' is to be delivered. If they do not know
their address, they stow them away in a particular room
until they have sense enough to say where they live. I
need hardly say that the charges at these establish-
ments are enormous, and that those who get drunk are
generally relieved of their purses, watches,' and gold
chains. In fact, the science of theft is so well known to
the deities of these places that, although drunk them-
selves, they always manage to pick the pockets of their
noble victims. The next moment the same people go to
their clubs, ask the news with the greatest nonchalance,
but never make any allusion to the adventures of last
night. They meet as if they had never seen one
another at the Finish on this subject there is a sort
of mutual assurance established in London on a large
scale. London is the town of colossal debauchery and
ridiculous modesty in language. All the legs of the
sofas and chairs have trousers. It is the same with the
pianos. I asked my hostess why these articles of fur-
niture were clothed more than the ballet girls at the
Haymarket and Covent•garden. ' Oh, sir,' said she,
' would not you be shocked to see the lsgs of the chairs?'
In England, if you were to speak of the legs of a
chair it wuuld be very shocking.'"

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
YIOE-CEI4NCERY COURT, May 7.
(Before Lord CRANWuRTH.)
THE ATTORNEY•GENERAL v. HARDY.
This was a motion argued before his Lordship in the
present term to prevent the trustees of two chapels,
celled the Old and New Chapels, at Holt, iu Nortblk,
from permitting them to be disposed of or used ad-
versely to the provisions of the deeds under which they
bad been established; and also from claiming to act fur-
ther as trustees of the new chapel under the deed of
1837. The present motion arose out of the recent
schism in the Wesleyan body. In July, 1814, a deed
was executed between Messrs. Hardy, Curteis, and
Johnson, as trustees for the general body of Methodists,
by which deed the trustees were empowered to
mortgage an old chapel at Holt, and in 1833
a further arrangement was come to, by which Mr.
Hardy, who was treasurer of the chapel, agreed to re-
duce his mortgage debt to a sum of 3501. In 1837 the
Wesleyan body having greatly increased in number, a
larger chapel became necessary, and accordingly one was
erected at Holt; and by a deed dated October of that
year, the chapel and the land on which it was built was
conveyed to trustees, and the effect of this arrangement
eventually was, that Mr. Hardy became entitled to a mort-
gage upon the now chapel to the amount of 6004, in addi-
tion to his mortgage of 2001. upon the old chapel. In
1849 Mr. Hardy died, and by his will Mr. Cozens Hardy
became his executor, and entitled to the mortgages. In
1849 the schism broke out among the members of the
Wesleyan body, and extended itself to the Holt district.
Mr. Cozens Hardy, who is a gentleman of fortune and
a coentry magistrate, sympathised with the three
ministers expelled, and agitated, as it was called, the
Wesleyan body in their favour. After some contro-
versy, the Conference proceeded, under the rules of the
society, to expel Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Coleman, who
was also a trustee of the old chapel. In May, 1850, Mr.
Cams Hardy, as executor of Mr. W. Hardy, applied to
Mr. Curteis, one of the trustees of the old chapel, for
payment of the sum of 2001., duo on the mortgage,
intimating that if the amount were not paid he should
resort to legal proceedings. Accordingly in May,
1850, the chapel was advertised for sale. In the Oc-
tober following an angry correspondence took place
between Mr. Hardy and the Rev. Mr. Worker, who
is the superintendent preacher of the circuit. Even-
tually the old chapel ,was put up for,sale,, and knocked
down to a Mr. George,Turnor for 2004; and about the
same time Mr. Hill, one of the defendants, took an as-
signment of Mr. Hardy's mortgage on the new
chapel for a sum of 6001. These are substantially the
facts eontained in the case. The bill alleged that Mr.
Hardy and the surviving trustees of the old chapel had
been expelled from the Wesleyan body, and that he and
others were using their influence adversely to the inter-
ests of Methodism, and that they had improperly sold
the old chapel. The bill also alleged that the transac-
tion between Mr. Hill and Mr. Hardy was only colour.
able, and the plaintiffs by this motion asked to restrain
the sale of the chapel, and the continuance of the defen-
dants in office as trustees.

His [Joann''r this morning gave judgment, and after
going through the facts of the case at some length, dis-
missedthe bill.

IMPORTANT AND EARLY NEWS arROM GREENLAND,
—By the Enterprise, Cardno, which left the ice on the 2lst
ult., arrived at Peterhead at noon on Thursday, with
9,500 seals, the result of only four days' fishing,
we hays the fo'lowing intelligence :—The Commerce,
Sellar, 4,000 to 5,000 seals ; Columbia, Birnie, 1,100 ;
Dublin, Mackie, 8,000 to 9000-90 tuns oil; Eclipse,
J. Gray, unknown; Fairy, Robertson, unknown; Ha-
milton Ross, Johnston, unknown; Mazintbien, Bur-
nett, unknown ; North of Scotland, D. Gray, 1,700
Pomona, Robertson, unknown ; Resolution, Walker,
600 ,• Traveller, llutchieson, 12,000 to 13,000; Union,
R. Walker, 5,000 to 6,000; Victor, Martin, 400. The above
are all Peerhead vessels. The Flamingo, Lee, of Hull, is
the only tnglish ship reported—she had 400 to 500 seals.
It is feared that the ships not reported have nearly all missed,
the fishing ground, owing to the peculiar state or the ice.
Foreigners are poorly fished.--Aberdecit Herald,