The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-23 00:00:00

THE STTN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1860.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS

Closing muft .doneis
Railways. Paidl Price.
Share

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Atlantic & St Lawrence]

Leased at 6 per cent..
Bom.,Baroda&Cent.lnd

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89 91

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Do. do. 1 July, 1873
Do. do. 1 June, 1874
Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim.
Cape,Eastn. Proy.(Lim.)
Cape Town & Dock Scrip,
Central Oude (Limited)
Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c
Demerara

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all
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100
100
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Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c.
East Indian, gu. 5 p. c
Do. I` Shares Ext
Do. Jubbulpore
Do. 44 p. c. Debentra
Do. 4 p.c. Deb., 1861
Geelong & Melbourne
Geelong Corporation 6
per cent. Bonds
Grand Trunk of Canada
Do. 6 per cent. Pref
Do. 6 percent. Debentr.
Do. 7 per cent. 18 62 ....
Do. do. 1837....
Do. do. 1872....
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Gt. South. of Ind.Lim.—
guaranteed 5 per cent.
G t. W. of Canada Shares
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1856.

1857.

1858.

1859.

1860.

Stock this day.

Price of Y.C. .. 1
Delivery las t week
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 1
Prise of Town ....

31,432 i
&Ss 6d to
—s Od

12,139 25,189
618 9d to Ha 6d to
62s Od —s Od
1,839 2,702
83,267 75,893
33? 871
78,426 87,970
628 64 558 9d

26,625 141,268
536 3d to 48s 6d to
—9 ed --s Od
2,447 2,346
73,380 36,258
431 1,824
88,418 85,442
556 Od .608 3d

817
81,500
270
50,399
56s 6d

LAW IN2'ELLIGENC.E.-(TTIIS DAY.)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

The Court was occupied the whole of the day in hearing
the arguments of counsel in a case upon a bill of exchange.
The decision of their lordships upon General Beatson's
application for a new trial of his cause will not be given
before to-morrow.

COURT OF DIVORCE.

(Before the Judge Ordinary, Baron Watson, and Justice

Wightuatin.)
FULLER V. FULLER AND DYER.

This was the petition of Henry Fuller, a steward on
board a steampacket, praying for dissolution of marriage
with his wife on the ground of adultery. Both respondents
pleaded denial.
Dr. Swaby and Mr. Pearce were for the petitioner, and
Mr. Dowdeswell, and Mr. Raymond for the respondents.
It appeared that the parties were married in 1853, and
cohabited until 1858, except during the absence of the peti-
tioner whilst on his voyages. In 1857 petitioner sailed for
India, and was absent until the 21st of April, 1858.
On his arrival Mrs. Fuller, accompanied by her sister,
visited him on board his vessel in ;the Victoria Docks, and
remained with him until the following morning. They
then left, :it being arranged that Mrs. Fuller was to go
with her sister and remain at her residence until the peti-
tioner came in the evening. They went from the docks to
Fenchurch-street, by the railway, and the co-respondent,
who was in the same carriage with them, got into conversa-
tion with Mrs. Fuller. When the train arrived they all
went to Foster's Railway Tavern, near the Terminus, and
partook of refreshment. Mrs. Fuller, while in the room,
quarrelled with her sister, and refused to accompany her
home. The latter then went away, and Mrs. Fuller re-
mained at the tavern. Shortly after this quarrel occurred,
she and the co-respondent drove in a cab to Hampton
Wick, and subsequently to the Clay Hall Tavern,
Bow, where they remained until eleven o'clock,
at night. They then went away together, and Mrs. Fuller
had not since returned to her husband. The petitioner
traced her and the co-respondent to the tavern above-
mentioned, and found that she left several small parcels
and a bird cage, which she had taken away from the shop
the previous morning. Petitioner received a letter from
his wife afterwards, in which she expressed great remorse
for having offended him, and entreated him to make some
provision, to prevent her leading a life of prostitution.
Several witnesses were examined to establish the identity
of Mrs. Fuller and the co-respondent, as the parties who
been at Foster's and May Hall Taverns, one of whom posi-
tively deposed to having seen the act of adultery committed
at the latter place.
The case is not expected to close to-day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Commissioner Goulbourn.)
IN ItII JOHN EDWARD BULLER, TUE DEFAULTING

SOLICITOR.

To-day was the examination meeting in the matter of
this bankrupt, described as of Enfield and Lincoln's-inn-
fields, scrivener and money lender, coal owner, and brick-
maker.

Mr. Laurence, for the assignees, asked that the matter
might be adjourned for two months. It was not desirable
to take an adjournment eine die. The bankrupt was adju-
dicated in August, and surrendered on the day appointed.
Some time after the adjudication an adjournment for three
months had been ordered, so that the bankrupt might give
information to his creditors, who had been most
grievously wronged. The parties wronged were most of
them in a high position in life. Interrogatories had been
put and answered by the bankrupt in a manner which dis-
closed great fraud. The creditors had understood that if
so minded they must prosecute their individual cases, for
the machinery of this court could not be set in motion un-
less for offences coming within the statute.
The Commissioner thought it would be hard to make the
bankrupt criminate himself. The creditors could prosecute
if they liked, but the Court could not interfere.
Mr. Lawrence then moved that the allowance be reduced
to £3 per week.
Mr. Lawrence said that the position of the estate was by
no means so promising as at first imagined.

The Commissioner granted tho adjournment asked for.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
IMPORTANT DECISION.-TO LOAN SOCIETIRS.-RIMIN4•

TON V. ROBERTS.

This was an action to recover a sum of money, balance
of a promissory note given by a borrower named Williams,
for whom defendant was surety, to plaintiff, proprietor of a
Loan Society.
Mr. Sorrell, of Mark-lane, for defendant, had on a former
occasion obtained an adjournment in order that plaintiff's
books might be produced. The defence was that Mr.
Roberts had heard nothing of this matter for two years.
Williams was dead, and defendant had been informed that
everything had been paid.

Plaintiff's secretary produced the books, whioh showed
the balance as upon the face of the summons.
Mr. Sorrell asked why the accounts paid had not been
entered on the back of the note ?
Secretary—lt is not customary.

Mr. Sorrell then urged that he was entitled to a non-
suit. Here was defendant, a most responsible man, who
had not been applied to for this money for two years. The
matter was certainly not satisfactory.
His Honour—l am not satisfied, and, in accordance with
the statute, will non-suit.

Mr. Sorrell—l have given notice to the other side. Can
I have any costa ?

His Honour—Certainly.

Defendant and attorney wore then allowed.

RACING FIXTL
FEBR'

Lincoln Spring l5
Nottingham Spring 2l

RES FOR 1860.

AItY.
Derby Spring 2B

Liverpool Spring 6
Shrewsbury Spring 7
Coventry l3

Warwick Spring 20
Northampton 27
30 Croxton Park

York Spring l7
Epsom Spring 20
Newmarket F S ..23

Newmarket C ... 6
Catterick Bridge 11
Thirsk l2
MAY.
Chester 1 Harpenden lB
Doncaster Spring 8 Epsom 22
Salisbury lO Manchester 3O
Bath

Ascot 5
Hampton l3
Newton 13
Odiham 19
Bibtery Club 20

Newmarket J. 3
Carlisle
Worcester
Liverpool
Abingdon .. 12

AUG

Brighton
Brighton Club 3
Wolverhampton
Reading 8
Plymouth l4
Oxford l5

SEPTE
Warwick
Doncaster 11
Leicester l9

Bedford
Newmarket S 83 I
NOTE:

Stockbridge 21
Winchester 22
Chelmsford 26
Newcastle ..

Nottingham 17
Stamford l9
Marlborough 2O
Goodwood 24

Egham 21
York 22
Stockton 23
Lichfield 27
Derby 29

.MTIER.
Monmouth 2O
Manchester Autumn 21
Newmarket F.O. 25
)1 EE.

I Newmarket H 22
Worcester Autuma 30
IMEHR.

Hereford
Liverpool Autumn 7

Shrowsbury Autumn....l3

IRELAND.
inuL.

Curragh 24
MAT.
Howth •nd Baldoyla Summer .. S
Juxi.
Wicklow

JuiT. -
Ballawatown 11 I Down Royal Cup 24

AUGUST.
Heath of liaryboro',... 7 Roscommon 21
Galway l4

Sitneasiit.
Curragh .. 4 Joakinstown Park ..18
Tramore I
.... ll Cashel 26

Ocrowiz.
Londonderry ..... 2 Royal Down Corporation-24
Curragh ., „A I Strabane 3O

STEEPLECHASING.
FIBRUARY.
Carmarthenshire ......7, 9 1 Grand Military (North-
Derby Midland .........23 ampton) 29, 30
Tenby .. 2B
.••••_

Tenby , 1 I Pembroke Annual l3
Birmingham ..12, 13 CoTentry l4

MR. ConDEN.—The following statement appears
in the Athenceutti :—" The public will regret to hear a
rumour that Mr. Cobden has lost nearly the whole of his
private fortune by investment in American railway shares.
They will rejoice, however, if the rumour should be true,
to hear that the loss will be repaired to this useful ser'ant
of the public, in a manner at once splendid, delicate, and
prompt. In a few days, if wo are rightly told, names have
been put down for £40,000, in sums from £5lO to £5,000
each. The friendliness thus expressed is a most noble
tribute to public virtu and public service."

LETTER FROM nit. COBDEN.—The following has
been received by the Roohdale Non-Electors' Association,
in reply to an ins itati on to attend their annual meeting
" Paris, 16th Jan., 1860.—Dear Sir,—l regret that I cannot
see any prospect of being able to comply with your invita-
tion to attend a meeting of the non -electors previous to the
meeting of Parliament. If engagements of an unavoidable
kind did not keep mehero, I should still be unable to address
a public meeting at the present time, owing to an affection
of my throat, which requires that I should abstain from any
great exertion of my voice. I must, therefore, beg your
association to kindly allow me to postpone till a future op-
portunity the plea sure of seeing them.—l remain, your
obedient servant,—.RlCHAßD ConDEN,"

LITERATURE.

Gathered TOgether. Poems. By William Wilson,
Author of " A Little Earnest Book," &c. Long-

mans.

We have frequently had occasion to commend
this author's prose works as full of earnestness, and
showing a cultivated taste and ready appreciation
of the beautiful. He now comes before us in a new
form, and though we cannot consider his poetry
equal to his prose, there is much in this little collec-
tion that will please the reader of simple and
natural tastes. Many of the poems were written
some years since, and those on Lamartino and on
Hungary show the writer's deep and honest feeling
on the subjects; they drew letters of cordial thanks
from the great men to whom he addressed them.
A warm sympathy with human freedom and pro-
gress is shewn in all his writings, and his descrip-
tions of scenery testify his love of nature. We
quote the following passages as specimens of the
author's powers :

ELECTRICITY.
As little know we what our infants think,
As what this baby-power shall yet perform ;
It travels in the lightning on the storm,
And of new wonders leads us to the brink.
We know not, using it, what 'tis we uso,
Or how it triumphs over time and space!
Surely those miracles which once took place,
hold scarce more Wonder-food on which to muse!
This soundless voice most boundless secrets sways:
Now nation, mentally, shakes hands with nation;
Through pathless waters, over trackless ways—
The hemispheres can hold a conversation I
Material types express all that's believed ;
The immaterial cannot be conceived.

The subjoined verses are extracted from a pleas-
ing and graceful poem entitled " Where I would
wish to rest ":

With waving corn-fields far around, -
Where sing the larks at morn ;
With bushes matted close about,
Where nightingales are born !
All interspers'd with mossy banks,
Where Spring's sweet violets nest—
Calm and secluded is the spot
Where I would wish to rest.
Where ivy claspeth round the tower
Of the gray church so old ;
As though it could preserve from time
Beneath its green arms' fold.
Dark yew-trees spreading round the porch—
Of church-yard trees the best—
For nature seems to love the spot
Where I would wish to rest.
Where—westward open to the sea—
At solemn death of day,
The glorious sun in grandeur sets,
Shedding his latest ray.
(The sun is brightest when he sinks,
Like man by death caressed)
The golden sunsets bathe the spot
Where I would wish to rest.
Where, at the stilly hour of night,
The clear-eyed moon looks through,
Casting fantastic shadows there,
On grass and gravestone, too;
Bedecking with its silver light
The brooklet's crimpled breast—
That thrilleth lowly by the spot
Where I would wish to rest.

Narrative of the Mutinies in Cowie. By Captain
Hutchison, Bengal Engineers.
District Duties during the Revolt in India. By
H. Dundas Robertson, Bengal Civil Service.
Campaigning Experiences in Rojpootana and
Central India, 1857-58. By Mrs. Duberley.
Smith and Elder.

Books on India seem now to have become a
recognised branch of literature. Works on the
country itself and its national resources, the best
method of government, and the discussion of the
difficulties attending the missionary question, may
indeed be expected to issue from the press for
some time to unne ; but we should conjecture that
the volumes before us were about the last stragglers
of the formidable army of personal narratives and
adventures during the revolt. The two works first
mentioned serve to illustrate two aspects of the
question, the one being by the Military Secretary
to the Chief Commissioner, Oude, and the other by
a member of the Bengal Civil Service. The
narrative of Captain Hutchinson is a work
of some importance. It has been com-
piled with the concurrence of the Govern-
ment of India, and by the direction of R. Mont-
gomery, C.S. Chief Commissioner of Oude, with the
object of affording to all who may have lost friends
or relations in Oude the most accurate and com-
plete information that the local Government has
been able to collect. It has been a book of great
care and research, and the narrators have, as
far as possible, been left to tell their own story,
which adds greatly to the merits of the volume,
besides making it far more interesting to the reader
not personally concerned in the tragedies. From
the author's position, and from the fact of its being
published by authority, the work has a character of
authenticity which must render it valuable to those
whose friends or relatives were engaged in those
terrible scenes.

Mr. Robertson accounts for the publication
of his work by stating that he was de-
tained for some weeks in Calcutta waiting for a
passage to England. He employed his unexpected
leisure by writing a brief account of the scenes
through which he had passed, and the reflections aris-
ing from them. At the time of the revolt the author
was a joint magistrate in the Saharunpore district
in the North-west Provinces, and wasiubsequently
officiating collector for that district and placed in
a commission for the investigation and trial of
cases connected with the mutiny and rebellion.
He had thus from his official position full opportu-
nity of forming a correct estimate of the position
of affairs, and as he was frequently the only Euro-
pean actor in the scenes he describes, his narrative
has some originality to commend it to the atten-
tion of the reader. The earlier portion of his
work, he tells us, " will furnish a record of events
in a district under the government of the North-
west Prrovinces, where, notwithstanding mutiny
and rebellion, British authority was successfully
maintained by some half-dozen Englishmen left to
their own resources without the hope even of as-
sistance from European troops."
Mrs. Duberley is well known to the English
public as the enterprising and adventur-
ous authoress of " A Journal kept during the
Russian War." It is sufficient to say that
she displayed all the energy and spirit for
which she is famous, in this new and more perilous
campaign ; and tells us the part of the Brigade
which she accompanied, marched "in spite of
Indian sun and Indian rain, and in the toilsome
pursuit of an everflying foe a distance of 2,028
miles," more than 1,800 of which she herself ac-
complished on horseback.

The _History of Progress in Great Britain. By
Robert Kemp Philp. Houlston and Wright.
Theearly history of Great Britain, and the gradual
advancement made toward civilisation by our an-
cestors, although partially hidden in obscurity must
always prove interesting to Englishmen. The pre-
sent work, when once the reader has mastered the
rule by which the author has regulated his compi-
lation of events, which we confess, in spite of some
assistance furnished in the preface, to be somewhat
difficult, will be found interesting in this partioular ;
he commences his narrative with a description of the
state of England at the time of Comers' first invasion,
and shows that the character of the English in the
days of yore was much the same as at present—
that they were never actually conquered by the
Romans, although they suffered themselves to
bo governed by them; that they submitted to
taxes when anything approximating to justice was
shown in the imposition, but broke out into open
rebellion when it was otherwise. The author has
evidently taken great pains in collecting his infor-
mation, from the Roman authors he gathers evi-
dence of the eloquence of the early Britons and
cites, besides the memorable speech of Caractacus,
Boadicea's .exhortation to her troops before her
last attempt to preserve her country. Some curious
facts are brought to light, and amongst others our
readers will be surprised to learn that the bar-
barous and ridiculous practice of ploughing by
the tail, which Irishmen so indignantly repudiate,
was, according to the Rev. Ciosar Otway, in vogue
in the remote west of Ireland as late as 1840; and
from other authority that the same practice con-
tinued in Scotland up to 1792. The prejudices of
the human race, and the fierce oppositian which all
improvements meet with, are too patent to need
comment ; but, as a further example of this suicidal
policy, we may cite the fact that when M'Adam
first commenced constructing his famous roads " the
old conservative coachman, the Marlborough one,
would not use the new turnpike road, but stuck to
the old waggon track. The Blandford required
t
but five foot width in a lane, and alltherest might
go to the devil. "The gentry he considered
ought
to stay at home, and be
--, and not run gossip-
ingi up and down the country.' s a curious fact.
It
, that the two great roadmakers WAdam and Tel
ford were born
in consecutive yTelford earsin;
.It7hsu7s.
M'Adam was born in 1756, and
The progress of the art of e
of
navalthe
savage,architectureand com-
mencing with the coracle
ad-
vancing step by step to.theeonstruetiouofthe
Great Eastern, is described with the same care
which has been devoted to agriculture and road-
making; but it is rather disheartening to the lover
of old-established truths to be told that Sir Walter
Raleigh did not introduce potatoes and tobacco into
England. What, are all our beliefs to be swept
away? No, we will not accept it. The work is
I well illustrated, and deserves attention.

R7teld Gana : Wanderings Round Lake Superior.
By J. G. Kohl. Chapman and Hall.
Indian tradition, manners, and customs have
beenc, related too often to be new to the public;

' nevertheless, the present volume has peculiarities
which must much recommend it. The author is a
man of deep research, and has taken great pains in
collecting the traditions and legends which compose
this work. The reader of an Indian novel half
doubts the reality of what is intended for facts, but
when he peruses a work by an author of known
probity am' ability, he wonders rather than doubts
when he meets with the marvellous—and there
is certainly a great deal of the marvellous to
be found about Kitehi Gami, or the Big Water.
Together with the legends before referred to, a
sketch of the manners and customs of the parties
who are to figure therein, is indispensable to all
Indian narratives. The traditions are a pleasing
eombinution of love and murder, besides a good
deal of the fabulous, and many of the names which
they have borrowed from the animal kingdom are
founded on some of those fabulous traditions. The
magician has been busy amongst them in former
times, and even now is a person of no small conse-
quence ; but why recapitulate what has been so
often told ? Let the following extracts speak for
themselves :