The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEIVIBkR 22. 1860.

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L A lY .T 217 TELLTGEN CE,—(This Day.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
APPEAL-JUDGMENT-HOLROYD V. MARSHALL.

This was a composition between an assignee not in pos-
session, and a judgment creditor in possession under a

scierefacias.
His lordship was of opinion that the judgment creditor's
claim was preferable to the claim of the assignee,
reversed the order of the 'V ice-Chancellor, and dismissed
the appeal with costs.
REYNOLDS V. WRIGHT—APPEAL—JUDGMENT.

This was an appeal from a decision of the Master of the
Rolls on the 6th section of tho Wills Act and the 12th section
of the Statute of Frauds. The question raised was whethez
the testator's estate should go to the heir or executor.
His lordship was of opinion that in cases of intestacy the
heir was entitled to take the property. His lordship
affirmed the decision of the Master of the Rolls, and dis-
missed the appeal with costs.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
PEARSON V. BENSON-APPEAL-JUDGMENT.

This was an appeal from a decision of the Master of the
Rolls.

Lord Justice Knight Bruce and Lord Justice Turner
delivered their opinions on the various questions in dispute
between the parties in this case, and confirmed the decision
of the Master of the Rolls except as to costs. Their lord-
ships dismissed the appeal without costs, except the deposit
to be costs of the appeal, and reserved the consideration of
the order dismissing the appeal on minutes till next term.
APPEAL.--JUDGMENT.-NEVIL V. ELLIOT.

This was an appeal fromVice-Chancellor Wood, granting
an injunction.

Lord Justice Knight Bruce and Lord Justice Turner
dissolved the injunction against the defendant laying down
his telegraph cables, on the defendant undertaking to abide
by an order of court that may be made in the cause without
prejudice to the plaintiff, establishing his right under his
patent in a court of law.
APPEAL-JUDGMENT.-BUNT V. ELMES.

This was a competition between a mortgagee and a pur
chaser without notice of the mortgage 'arising out of
Hughe, the solicitor, fraudulently concealing the mort-
gage on property at Stratford, Essex.
Lord Justice Knight Bruce and Lord Justice Turner
were of opinion that the mortgagee for £l,OOO was prefer-
able to the subsequent purchaser, and varied the decree of
the Master of the Rolls, in so far as it ordered the defendant
to deliver up the title deeds of the property.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
BETT V. WEIR-A LONG JUDGMENT.

This was a judgment summons, and Mr. Salter, for the
plaintiff, said that as long ago as 1852 a judgment sum-
mons had been issued against defendant in the Marylebone
County Court. That was not put in force because plaintiff
and the officers could not catch defendant.
His Honour—This is a very long time ago.
Mr. Salter—By permission of your Honour, under the
110th rule, the present summons has been issued.
Mr. Buchanan—l appear for defendant. It is for the
plaintiff to prove that defendant has means.
Mr. Salter—He is in receipt of a salary.
Mr. Buchanan—He gets a job now and then.
His Honour—l will make an order of committal for ten
days.

REGISTERING A PATE3II,--LEMON V. BALL.
This wasan action to recover £lO 108., money alleged to
have been paid at defendant's request.
Mr. Lewis, of Wilmington-square, called plaintiff, who
said that defendant had invented a die and press, but had
not the money to provisionally register it. At his request
plaintiff paid £lO 10s. for six months.

Cross-examined by Mr. Buchanan--Plaintiff was to give
defendant 5 per cent. upon the sales. Sold some articles
made by the patent. Worked the patent for six months.
Was to allow the defendant a share of the profits.
Mr. Buchanan called defendant, who said that he did
not ask plaintiff to pay the money. Plaintiff worked the
patent for six months. Thero was no agreement as to
profits.

His Honour was of opinion that plaintiff had not made
out his case. At best he had only made out a case of
partnership. He should find for defendant, with costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—( This Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

_ .
AN ARTFUL MODE OP PROYIDING A CHRISTMAS
DINNER.—Robert Leigh, a rough cunning looking fellow,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stoaling two geese
of the value of 14s. from the shop of Mrs. Webb, 109, Tot-
tenham-court-road.

A little girl netted Sarah Harrington proved seeing the
prisoner and another lad walk up to the shop window
just as the person who had been left in charge of the Christ-
mas stock had turned his back, and each of them dexte-
rously threw a cloth over a goose—selecting two very fine
ones—and then hastily walk off with them. She gave an
alarm and they were pursued, the prisoner being caught,
but the other escaping.

George Maynard, in the employ of Mrs. Webb, said he
had only just left the geese, having kept a sharp look out
all day, knowing that there was a number of young thieves
about, when the alarm was given. He immediately ran
after the lads, but unfortunately slipping down the other
lad escaped, but he succeeded in securing the prisoner after
a chase.

Prisoner—Why, I was going along quiet like, when a
boy seized up a goose and threw it at me. I was, of course,
running after him, when up comes this 'ere person and
stops me, and says, " You stole the goose," and gives me
into custody.

A constable said the prisoner had been before convicted,
and the prisoner, who did not seem to relish the idea of
going to pass his Christmas in prison, was committed for
two months, with hard labour.

GABII3AL t I AT CAP_RERA.

Caprcra, Dec. 2.
At break of day all are astir, and everyone pre-
paring himself for his own occupations, so that on
the little square facing the house you see on the one
side Colonel D---- sharpening a knife, on the other
F— mending a spade; Menotti, his son, trying
a musket ; B—, who with a needle mends nets ;
G— selecting the seeds; and, inside the house,
the daughter's good governess preparing some
coffee for these working people. Then each goes
about his business—one to the direction of the
plough, another to the plantation of the vine, which
is to be tried ; some devoting themselves to fishing.
others to the chase, and the General to survey all.
to direct all, selecting the best agricultural systems
that his mind suggests to him. Towards mid-day
a slight and sober collation, where, seated around
an old walnut table, " belonging to drawing or en-
trance room," they narrate to each other their cam-
pestral feats, interpersed by relations of war epi-
sodes, of military adventures, and a hundred other
things, which render that familiar intercourse so
exquisitely agreeable. Then the daughter, a rinz-
promptu, makes the horse resound with the accords
of an excellent piano (sole luxurious article of fur-
niture he possesses at Caprera), and begins playing
the allegro, " Daglicla avanti un passo," followed
by "Va d'ltalia"—hymns which recall so
much grief and so many national joys. After break-
fast each resumes his occupation again to meet at
the frugal evening dinner, where certainly no one
envies the regal repast shared in gilded saloons.
At night, after a short walk, the Dictator retires to
his own little room, and there, alone with his
thoughts, meditates on the future destiny of that
Italy, which, I may say, he never names without a
tremour of love. C. M.
Dec. 3.

In my preceding letters I did not tell you that
the government sent to Maddalena, for the Dicta-
tor's disposal, the national steamer Washington—
the same that so greatly assisted at the disembarka-
tion on terra firma. Garibaldi, however, gratified
at such empressensent, would not allow that the
State should suffer an expenditure which he thought
unnecessary, and nobly refused the offer.
Last week he with various friends went to the
Sardinian coast to hunt. Hardly was Garibaldi's
arrival known than a thousand fires shone on the
surrounding hill summits, and multitudes of
mountaineers hastened from every part. Among
those villagers he spent a happy day. This morn.
ing I have gone all over Caprera, and I went in
the demesnes of the joint proprietor of the island.
an English lady, who, perhaps, misanthropically
inclined, or given to contemplation, has these
many years come to bury herself in the solitude of
a cabin, which she has had built in the southern
part of the island. The two tenures of the general
and the lady are separated by a wall a few feet
high, and here and there intercepted by oval-
shaped gates. The declivity of the hill, where
some weak shrubs grow is covered by some erratic
masses of granite imbedded in a thousand fanciful
ways by the corroding action of the maritime
waters which in remote times against them beat.

A letter just received from Naples says :—" Mr.
Fielder, proprietor of the yacht Julia, came in
from Caprera on the 12th, and brought us welcome
intelligence of Garibaldi. He and his party landed
and climbed up to his house, but not finding him at
home they went to seek him, and met him return-
ing with a spade over his shoulder, and bearing
evident signs of exertion on his face. They re-
turned with him to his house, which, though
marked by great order and cleanliness, was sim-
ply furnished, even to deal tables. On the next
day he went on board the Julia, and partook of
the hospitality of Mr. Fielder. There is an inti-
mation in a portion of the British press that Ga-
ribaldi is expected to visit London. A friend of
his writes me as follows As far as I can know
from a letter of the general's, he is not disposed to
accept any invitation to go to London. He says—
" I cannot, and would not, leave Caprera at pre-
sent." This is in answer to the invitation of
some English gentleman I haie already sent to
him."

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

COVENT GARDEN.

The show of fruit is very moderate, but the supply of
♦egetables continues large. Generally speaking., the
demand rules steady, as follows :

FRU

s. d. s. d.
Pine apples, perlb 4 0 to 8 di
Colonial do., each 1 0 to 1 6
Grapes,per lb 3 0 to 6 0
Foreign do 1 0 to 1 6
Nielons, each 2 0 to 4 0
Peaches, perdoz 6 0 to 12
Nectarines, per dz 2 0 to 6 0
Apples, per hf. sv. 1 6 to 3 0
Pears, per do
Oranges, per doz 5 0 to 10 0
Lemons, per 100 4 0 to 8 0
Apricots, per doz 2 0 to 4 0

- - •
B. d. g. d
Cherries, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb 1 oto 1 6
Cobnuts, per lb 1 oto 1 6
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0
Figs, per doz 2 Ito 4 6
Strawberries potl 0 0 to 0 0
Gooseberries id sv 0 oto 0 0
Currants, per do. 0 oto 0 0
Plums, per do.
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0
Raspberries,prptlo oto 0 0

'VEGETABLES.
Greens, dz bunch 3 oto 3 6 , Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0
Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 3 Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2
Savoy do., pr do. 0 18 to 1 6 Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0
Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 3 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1
Brocoli, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Beet, per doz. 1 6to 2
Potatoes, per ton 100 to 150 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0
New ditto, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0
Peas, per sieve 1 6to 1 9 Mushrooms,p pun 2 oto 3
Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Artichokes, pr dz 4 oto 6
Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6 Cabbage lett,score 1 oto 2
Cucumbers 1 oto 1 6 ' Endive, per score 1 oto 2
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto • 0 Tomatoes, hi' aye 4 oto 6
Spinach, 0 6to 0 8 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0
Brus. sprouts, h.s. 1 3to 1 i Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0
Old onions, hf. sv. 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0
Do., dz bun
French beans, 100 9to 2 0 Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4
Leeks, per bunch • oto 0 0 Seakale, per pun. 0 0 to 0

AINSWORTH'S NEW NOVEL

•
The Constable of the 7ower. By W. Harrison
Ainsworth. illustrated bv John Gilbert. Now
publishing in Bentley's .Miscellany,
As the advertisements have now for some time
past been notifying to the public, would be the
care very temptingly, the New Year's number of
Bentley's Miscellany opens with the initial
chapters of another grand historical romance
from that master - hand to which , the
lovers of romance are already indebted for
"Rook wood"—for " Old St. Paul's"—for " 'Windsor
Castle"—for " St. James's"—for " The Tower of
London"—for " The Miser's Daughter"—and for so I
many other brilliant, popular, and far-famed works
of imagination.
Thrice welcome to g:fted tale-teller, upon whose
words of witchery our breathless curiosity has so
often hung suspended—hung, as it were upon the
suspension of a hair, meaning, of course, upon the de-
licately attenuated and intricately winding thread of
his narrative! It is not now the romance writer
?fir et simple, it is not now the "Anther of Book-
wood" who takes pen in haul, thereby, with that
magic pen of his, to—
" 'Witch the world with noble horsemanship 1"
It is Harrison Ainsworth in his later and more
ambitious character and capacity as a historical
romance writer, it is the " Author of Windsor
oaslle and of the Tower of London," who opens
another illumivated scroll before his readers, the
scroll of another story in which the great person-
ages of our English History, live and move, love
and hate, intrigue and die in the midst of the clus-
tering throng of the creatures born of novelist's
own abounding imagination. .
There is a scarcely resistible attraction in the
mere title of this the lat9st, and what evidently
aspires to be—and what if only it be continued and
completed as it has been commenced gives already
fair promise of being--the greateat of these his
torical romances of P. .h iron Ainsworth—" THE
CONSTABLE Or THE rOWER." Stalwart old Sir
John Gage—appointed Constable of the Tower of
London during the reign of King Henry VIII.—
being in truth the dignitary so designated.
The January number of Bentley's Miscellany
leads off the new story with its Prologue. This Pro-
logue, entitled " The Will of Henry the Eighth,"
consisting of half-a-dozen chapters. The period
chosen for the opening of the romance, it will be
at once by consequence inferred, is immediately prior
to the termination of the terrible reign of our Eng-
lish Blueheard. As evidence of the daring character
of Mr. Ainsworth's adventure in this narrative, as
a historical romancist—let us now mention the
somewhat extraordinary fact that already through
the loophole of this one division of his story he
has allowed his readers to see passing before them,
as it were, in gorgeous procession the following
far-famed historic personages :
King Henry VIII, at the close of his thirty-five
years' reign, sinking into the grave, already, while
yet alive, a bloated mass of corruption.
Queen Catherine Parr, his sixth wife, and of
them all (though so many of them were divorced) the
sole survivor.
Edward VI., when Prince of Wales, and scarcely
yet entered on his teens.
Mary, bis elder sister, the Future Queen at
thirty-two years of age, when Princess Royal of
England.
Elizabeth, the Great Queen of the Hereafter—
here, however, but a blooming Princess of thirteen.
Archbishop Cranmer, the Primate—robed in full
canonicals.
Sir Thomas Seymour, later on the wily Pro-
tector of the pious stripling Sovereign.
The Earl of Hertford, brother of the destined
Protector, aspiring himself to that perilous and
responsible dignity.
The Earl of ,Surrey—heroic knight, exquisite
poet, celebrant of the Lady Geraldine,
Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.
Wrriothesely, the Lord High Chancellor.
Dudley, Viscount Leslie, High Admiral of Eng-
land.

These and a crowd of other noblo and notable
personages have already thronged upon the scene
at the very threshold of this elaborate structure
of Mr. Ainsworth's new historical romance.
—conspicuous among them, towering loftily even
beside the once magnificent presence of King
Henry the Eighth, the noble form of Sir John
Gage, the Constable of the Tower.
Nothing could well be finer than the opening
chapter of the Prologue, descriptive of " How the
Right High and renowned King Henry the Eighth
waxed grievously sick and was like to die." It is a
most eloquent and striking epitome of a terrible reign
at the moment of its drawing towards its conclu-
sion. Referring to its ruthlessness, Mr. Ainsworth

... .
writes :
" The wisest, the noblest, the bravest, the best of Henry's
subjects were sacrificed to his resentment and caprice. ,
Uprightness could not save More and Fisher, nor long 1
services and blind obedience Wolsay and Cromwell. Age
offered no protection to the octogenarian Lord Darcy, and
piety failed to preserve the abbots of Fountains, Itivaux,
and Gervaux.
" But not alone did men perish by the stern behests of
this ruthless tyrant, this w rse than Oriental despot, but
women I—women of incomparable beauty, who bad shared
his couch, and had every claim upon bis tenderness and
compassion. But pity was not in his nature. When love
was gone, dislike and hate succeeded. Startling and
almost incredible is the history of his six marriages."
The following is our Rornancist's startling record
in a very few words of the fearful sequence of those
Six Marriages :
" Katherine of Aragon, faultless and loving, was divorced
to make way for the lovely Anne Boleyn, who, in her turn,
was decapitated to give place to the resistless Jane Sey-
mour. The latter lived not long enough to weary her
capricious consort, but was succeeded by Catherine of
Cleves, whose want of personal attraction caused the an-
nulment of her marriage and Cromwell's destruction.
Next came the .bewitching Catherine Howard, *ho was
butchered like Anne Boleyn ' • and lastly, Catherine Parr,
saved only from the bloclAyher own spirit and prudence,
as will be presently related. Twice was the nuptial knot
forcibly untied—twice was it sundered by the axe."
We must present to our readers, however, now
in rapid succession a few of the Historical Portraits
sketched in, upon his ample canvass, by Harrison
Ainsworth's master hand—portraits it will be seen
(even through those fragmentary excerpts)—
mingling vividly and of resplendent colouring.
Foremost among these in merit and importance is
the one here immediately subjoined :
HENRY VIII.
"Accounted, when young, one of the handsomest princes
in Europe, possessing at that time a magnificent person,
' a proud and majestic bearing, and all that could become a
sovereign, he was nowan unwieldy, unshapely, and bloated
mass. The extraordinary vigour of his early days gave
promise of long life, but the promise was fallacious. For-
merly he had been accustomed to take prodigious exercise,
and to engage in all manly sports ; but of late, owing to
increasing obesity, these wholesome habits were neglected,
and could never be resumed, his infirmities offering an
effectual bar to their continuance. Though not positively
intemperate, Henry placed little restraint upon himself in
regard to wine, and none whatever as to food. He ate
prodigiously. Nor when his life depended upon the ob-
servance of some rules of diet would he refrain.
"Engendered in his frame by want of exercise, and
nourishedby gross self-indulgence, disease made rapid and
fearful progress. Ere long he had become so corpulent,
and his limbs were so much swollen, that he was almost
incapable of movement. Such was his weight, that ma-
chinery had to be employed to raise him or place him in a
Ichair. Doors were widened to allow him passage. He
could not repose in a couch from fear of suffocation; and
unceasing anguish was occasioned by a deep and incurable
ulcer in the leg. Terrible was he to behold at this period.
Terrible to hear were his cries of rage and pain, which
resembled the roaring of a wild beast. His attendants
came nigh him with reluctance and affright, for the slightest
inadvertence drew down dreadful imprecations and menaces
on their heads. ,
4g . . Henry was seated in his cumbrous chair. Ever
fond of rich habiliments, even when labouring under mortal
disease, his predilections did not desert him. A gown of
purple caffa damask, furred with sables, and having a
border embroidered and fringed with Venice gold, was
thrown ever his shoulders. His overgrown trunk was en-
veloped in a doublet of purple satin, embroidered all over
with pearls, and his lower limbs were wrapped in a mantle
of black cloth of gold upon bawdkin. On his head he wore
a velvet skull-cap, richly set with pearls and other precious
stones. But these trappings and ensigns of royalty only
served to make the sick monarch's appearance more hideous.
It was dreadful to look upon him as he sat there, with his
features so bloated as scarcely to retain a vestige of huma-
nity, and his enormously bulky person. No one would
have recognised in this appalling object the once lire
un_
and majestic Henry the Eighth. The only
fcd
terrible ashferiaosv doe
changed in the king was the eye.
sunken in their orbits, his eyes were keen "
p
ever, proving that his faculties had lost none of their
force.
Here follows, not inappropriate/y., the delicately
pencilled limning Mr. Ainsworth gives us of
HENRY is
HENRY TIII.'B VI
more
" Catherine Parr's charms S
eaaur
as.
h ec
1 we
asran eths s3'
fully developed in the summer of life than in the spring.
At tshoafn exquisite s
At 35 she was far handsomwe
younger. Her complexion
her face was oval in form, the
her skin smooth as *St ghtly aquiline • her eyes
principal feature being :sli
brows
with' heavywere
Her
locks
large, dark, and languid in
expression,
jetty
hed by well-
over-arcmarble 6
banded over her forehead, and partly
were
rich head-dress. Her fi re vr
con-
cealed by
resort gu as tall and
d f 11 b
pone , u ,but not over much. Her de-
perfectly p
and queenl
uortment was majestic y, her manner calm, col-
lected, almost cold ; but, notwithstanding her gravity of
aspect anti staidness of demeanour, there was something in
Catherine's looks that seemed to intimate that she could
smile, ay, and indulge in innocent merriment, when alone
among her women, or unawed by her imperious spouse.
On the present occasion she was richly attired, as was her
wont. A circle of gold, ornamented with diamonds, rubies,
and small pearls, encompassed her brows. Attached to this
coronet was a coif of golden wire, while an embroidered
couvre-chief depending from it, completed her head gear
Her gown was of gold damask, raised with pearls of da-
mask silver, with a long close-fitting stomacher, and sleeves
tight at the shoulder, but having loose hanging cuffs of fur,
beneath which could be discerned slashed and puffed_om
under
sleeves of crimson satin. A necklace of jacinth ad
• eof
, her throat, and her waist was surrounded by a girdle
. A
I goldspaith's work, with friar's knots, masa
ell eidrdleblackwhich
1 somalader box terminated the chain of the g ,
re, ached almost to the feet."
e after whom the
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new work of the author of Windsor Castle is
named

THE CONSTABLE OF THE Tow En.
"th Sir John Gaeze---for he was the stalwart persoriage
on e king's righl—had a soldier like air and deportment,
and that he had seen service was evident from the scars on
his check and brow. His features were handsome, but of
an iron cast, and singularly stern in expressien. llis bt.ard
was coal-black, and cut like a spade. He was attiTd in a
doublet of tawny-coloured satin, a furred velvet cassock of
the same hue, and orange-tawny hose. He was armed
with rapier and dagger, and below the left knee wore the
Garter. Appointed master of the wards and Constable of
the Tower in 11i40, soon after the fall of Cromwell, Sir
John Gage was likewise made, at a later date, comptroller
of the household, and filled these important otl•es to the
king's entire satisfaction. His rough, blunt manner, and
fearlessness of speech, contrasting forcibly with the ser-
vility and obsequiousness of his other courtiers, pleased
Henry, who would brook some difference of opinion from
his own, provided he was firmly convinced, as in this in-
stance, of the speaker's honesty."
Enough, however, in the way of extracts, if to the
foregoing we now venture to add the portraitures
out' gifted Romanejat here introduced in the man-
ner following—portraitures of Henry three
Royal children, ouch in turn Ruler of this fair
realm of England.

QUEEN T.
" Her stomacher was fastened bRy
two brooches of agates
set with emeralds, from the lower of which a large orie
pearl depended. Her slender waist
was encircled by a
girdle of goldsmith's work, with roses of rubies, having
friars' knots, and hanging down in front. her dress was
of gold bawdkin, and fitting tight to the body, betrayed her
extreme thinness, and gave her a very
rigid look. tier
dark auburn locks (for we care not to call them red) were
gathered becomingly enough beneath her head-gear. Mary
hadand her features pAsessed little beauty ; but theymeagreness,
Were in.
telligent in expression."