The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-10 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Travellers' Tales Re-told. By Theta. Thompson

and Co,, 111, Strand.

This is a very pleasant little ♦olume of tales and
sketches, reprinted from the various magazines and
serials in which they originally appeared. They
are simple and unpretending in their style and
subject ; but the general reader will probably find
more entertainment in their pages than in more
ambitious works. Many of them are humorous in
their character, such as the one entitled " Fiction
in Fact and Romance in Reality," where a ro-
mantic author cannot find a suitable mode of killing
his heroine ; others are melodramatic, such as " The
Autobiography of an Unrecognised Genius," which
shows forcibly the evils of desultory habits and
want of definite application. The lovers of tragic
and exciting narratives will be enthralled by the
story called "A Life Chase," in which the unfortu-
nate hero is left alone with a madman, who an-
nounces his intention of cutting his throat. The
sketches are lively and amusing. The paper en-
titled " Why do young men marry ?" should serve
as a warning to all who rashly take the chains of
matrimony upon them. The sketch of "Social
Converse" has a good deal of truth mixed with its
pleasant satire. The author draws an amusing
picture of an English railway carriage, full of tra-
vellers, with "such a curious combination of gra-
vity, dignity, and suspicion overspreading every
countenance that you would imagine you had
stumbled upon a grand jury, or rather a bench of
judges assembled to hear some very important case
argued." Ho proceeds to give the following valu-
able advice :

" If any adventurous might design to inveigle his fellow-
travellers into a little pleasant intercourse during their
ride, let him be advised to give no quarter, but to com-
mence the attack at once on entering the carriage.
We have heard the very profound and original, not
say exciting remark, that the train was two minutes and
a quarter behind time in starting, give rise to quite an
interestingly-animated conversation. But let the critical
moment pass, and it is to the last degree improbable that
there will be a nice opening for a young man again during
that journey. Every minute the coolness chills, soon it ar-
rives at the freezing-point, and how many degrees below
zero it reaches by the time of separation we possess no means
of ascertaining. Indeed, if silence has been preserved until
the first station be reached, he must be a courageous mortal
who would then attempt to break it. Such an attempt
would seem to argue a presumptuous confidence in one's
own power of pleasing or of communicating information,
that would naturally arouse the opposition of every right-
minded Englishman. And then, what can be said at such
a stage of the proceedinvs which shall not wear the appear-
ance of having been studied ? And how can the most simple
observation be at all appropriate? Should any singularly
magnanimous person on the first starting hazard the state-
ment that the weather is very fine or wet, as the case may
be (though, by the way, let us advise our readers under such
circumstances, always to omit the intensive adverb, and to say,
The weather is fine, sir, or madam,' which omission gives the
person to whom your remark is addressed the opportunity of
carrying out your idea, and of not only acquiescing, but of
avoiding a servile agreement with you by adding very'),
this remark will appear quite natural and disinterested, if
made just as you arc elbowing yourself into your seat; but
how strange, how uncalled-for, how almost absurd, would
i t appear after you have sat staring through the window
for a quarter of an hour to make such a reflection on the
weather ! Of course it would sound as though you lad
just made the discovery, or had suddenly waked up out of a
nap, or had some special end in view or interested motive in
saying so. And, in fact, Whatever idea you might venture
to propound to interrupt a silence of fifteen minutes' con-
tinuance, would necessarily have such an air of sudden in-
spiration as would render the utterer of it an object of
unpleasant observation for some considerable period. Be-
sides this, to whom aro you to address yourself ? There
seems to be something almost invidious in singling out any
individual in particular to be the butt of your wit, malice,
or kindness, as it might be variously considered ; while,
should you address yourself to your audience generally, it
is more than probable the prevailing opinion will be, that
yen. are thinking aloud, or talking to yourself."

I❑ another amusing sketch on the " Vagaries of
Invention," we meet tho following passage :
'

" Indispensable superfluities I Who cannot, on a second's
reflection, from within the narrow range of inventions fall-
ing under his own observation, select half a dozen examples
of these unneeded necessaries of life ; prisoner-taken Tartars
which will not let you take them off, nor will suffer you to
go without them ; tormenting comforters, wasteful save-
ails, miserably delusive specimens of tremendous ingenuity
tremendously misapplied ? Turn your oyes from fantastic,
cumbrous, and unsuccessful chimney-pots and cowls above,
to angular, triangular, quadrangular, but never right-
angular blocks of wood forming the pavement on which
unfortunate cab-horses plunge and slide to and fro, below !
and how many such witty intentions meet your view.
"Take up the advertising pages of a newspaper, and you
discover that you have lived for half an age ignorant of the
very existence of hundreds of articles, duly patented and
registered, which it was next to impossible you should live
without. Don't you feel prodigiously thankful to a kind
Providence for preserving you unharmed, and unarmed too,
in the midst of dangers against which you should have de-
fended yourself' A semi-petrifying sensation of fear should
pervade the man who believes the announcements to which
we have alluded. It is quite clear that nothing but John
Smith's Dentifrice, or a miracle, can preserve tho teeth in
the case of the adult human animal. You have not used
that article, indispensable to the toilet of health and com-
fort, yet your teeth—incisores, eanini, inolaree—have most
perversely, and in bold defiance of the laws of nature as
enunciated by J. Smith, kept their places in your gums ;
Ergo—You aro the subject of a miracle. Your poor in-
fant, too, has had a narrow escape from a premature
grave. You knew not of the health-preserving robe, or, in
your unwarrantable confidence in Nature and her qualified
and authorised ministers, you neglected to administer the
life• sustaining syrup ; you treated with reckless contempt
the pretensions of Jones's Infantine Elixir Vitre, and
Williams's Quadruply-distilled Essence : and your infant
still lives :"

Thom's Almanac and Official .Directory for the
year, 1860. Thom and Sons, Dublin. Longman
and Co., London.

This useful publication has reached its seven-
teenth annual volume, and maintains its character
for general utility and careful compilation. Th•
editor remarks in his preface, that when first pub-
lished, in the year 1844, the Directory related
almost exclusively to Ireland, but encouraged by its
increasing circulation, and by the information and
assistance readily afforded him, he has endeavoured
to extend its sphere of action. It has a general
character, possessing some distinct directories refer-
ring to other portions of the United Kingdom and
to our colonial possessions. Among these more
general branches we find a Civil Service Directory
for the United Kingdom ; a Navy, Army, Militia and
Volunteer Directory, giving full information on
these very important topics; and an enlarged Colo-
nial Directory, giving lists of Government officers
and local authorities in our foreign and colonial
possessions, corrected by the colonial authorities.
The President of the American Republic and the
Ministry of the United States are also included.
One of the most remarkable features of the work is
the collection of statistics of the United Kingdom,
especially of Ireland. The compiler states that he
has been induced to give a prominent place to this
division of the work, thinking that it would be
valuable not only as a record of commercial transac-
tions, but as a means of testing the social condition
and progress of Ireland, as exemplified by the com-
parison of the yearly statistics. The wide range of
information which the work offers to our notice,
and the care and labour which have been expended
in its compilation, merit the continuance of the
encouragement and support it has hitherto received
so deservedly from the publio.

Ernest and Charlie, or Play and Work. A Story
of Hazlehurst School. By M. Betham Edwards,
Author of "The White House by the Sea."
Edinbargh : Edmonston and Douglas.
In nothing is the improvement of literature more
manifested than in the great increase of admirable
little works written for the especial benefit of the
young. They are highly to be prized on many
accounts, as they afford an easy mode of im-
pressing on these dawning minds the most striking
examples and the most important truths. The pre-
sent little book will be found an excellent addition
to the juvenile stores, and many children may de-
rive profit, while they glean amusement, from its
animated pages. The character of Charlie is very
well described ; ke is none of those models of per-
fection which exist only in imagination, neither is
he shown to us as altogether bad, but he is a fair spe-
cimen of a good disposition, marred by many grave
faults which lead him into the commission of most
dangerous actions ; at the same time there is talent
and worth in his nature, which finally triumph over
the evil tendencies. Ernest is of a totally different
character, full of those gentle and attractive qua-
lities with which a beneficent Providence so often
endows those afflicted with a grievous deprivation.
Ernest was blind—he was of a poor family, but his
many drawbacks were in some degree compensated
for by his wonderful gift for music. He had come
to London to endeavour to make his fortune by the
exhibition of his precocious talent, and he was intro-
duced at Charlie's school. PrtietiCal lessons always
make the most impression on the young,. and the
sight of this blind boy, alone, in a foreign land,
.
about to struggle to support himself among stran-
gers, powerfully affected the generous nature and
warm heart of Charlie Steward. There are many
little scenes in this hook that are very amusiug,
and that are most likely to gain the attention of
Toting readers, to whom it may be presented by
their friends in the confident hope that its perusal
will be attended with pleasure and future
profit.

LONDON AN!) BLACKWALL RAILWAY,—The re-
port of the directors, to be presented at the half-yearly
general meeting of proprietors at the London Tavern, on
Tuesday, the 14th instant, states that there is an increase
in the receipts in the half-year of £4„518 compared with
those for the corresponding six Dionths of the previous
year, and that the expense; ait) in excess of those far the
,
same period by 118:1, iteoeipts—July to December, 1858
18,774 ; ditto 111s9,
£53,292. Expenses —July ,to Dec
1858, £18,236 ; ditto 1859, £11,419. The balance to th.e
credit of revenue amounts to .Q.94„.7/3 13s. 7d., and after
dedUcting £6,728 :is, I,OA, interest, there remains
V 8,144 9s. 9d. mt for dividend. The directors re,
comionci 44,1 deaaration of a dividend at the rate 44441• 1
~a,i;i-ker annum upon the £1,312,210 conpli.4t,e4 stock 11
the company, which is equivalent to4A, A 6,.
Re, mug p-
increase of 6d, a share eu that val 4 at WA
• • • yet
oar.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—( Day.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Peers presene—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham,
Lord Cranworth, Lord Chelmsford, and other Peers.

APPEAL-JUDGMENT-JOHNSTONE V. J 0 HNSTONE.

The Lord Chancellor was of opinion that the bond for
£1,600 was heritable and not moveable, but it was com-
petent to prove pro at de jars that the agreement
in question was entered into in ignorance of the
parties' rights, and therefore it was not incumbent
on the Court of Session to decide that question, but it was
competent to grant an issue to try that question by a
jury.

Their lordships affirmed the decision of the Court of
Session in Scotland, and dismissed the appeal with costs.
APPEAL—JLDGMENT—COMMERCIAL BANE OF SCOTLAND

V. nu ND.
The Lord Chancellor was of opinion that the pass-book in
question was not a probative document,and that the appellant
was not bound to prove the double entry of £BO in it scri:plo
vel jurisnento, but that ho was entitled to prove the errone-
ous double entry of that sum in the passbook pro ut de jure.
. _

Their Lordships reversed the decision of tho Court of
Session in Scotland, and allowed the appeal with costs, and
remitted the case to the Court of Session t• allow the proof
offered by the appellant. Respondents' costs in the Court
of Session to be set off against the appellant's costs.

APPEAL-JUDGMRNT.-GLASGOW, BARRIIEAD,.A.ND NIEL-
STON DISTRICT RAILWAY COMPANY V. CALEDONIAN
RAILWAY, ET AL. ER PASTE AS TO CERTAIN RE-

SPONDENTS.

The Lord Chancellor was of opinion that the Caledonian
Railway Company were liable to be rated for poor rates in
respect of their lease for 999 years, from the Barrhead
Railway Company of their lineof railway within the Abbey
parish of Paisley. Their lordships reversed the decision of
the Court of Session in Scotland, and allowed the appeal
with costs.

Costs of respondent in the Court of Session, t,nd appel.
lants' costs to be arranged.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Beforo Sir C. Creswell and a Common Jury.)
COOK V. COOK.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

This was the petition of the wife, praying fora judicial
separation from her husband on the ground of cruelty, to
which he pleaded a denial.

Dr. Phillimore. Q.C., and Mr. Layton were counsel for
the petitioner, and the respondent conducted his own case.
It appeared that the parties were married in July, 1858,
and separated the following June, during which time the
petitioner gave birth to a child. In about a fortnight after
the ill-treatment commenced, and continued till the peti
tiener was compelled to take protection at her father's.
Mr. Percival, stated that he was the father of the peti-
tioner, and was an oilman and provision merchant in Valen-
tine-place, Blackfriar's-road. In the autumn of 1857, Mr.
Cook was introduced to him at Margate, and he came
afterwards to his house in town. He said he was in the
Temple, practising as a barrister, and that he was placed
there by his father, who was a very wealthy man, living in
Herefordshire, merely to prevent his leading an idle life.
After some time he stated that ho had formed an attach-
ment for his daughter, and on his expressing a desire to
see his father in reference to the subject, he promised to
write to him. Some time afterwards he brought a person
whom he introduced as his father, and who stated he was
possessed of property in Hereford, that he allowed his son
£5 a week, and would, on the marriage, place £5OO to his
credit at the bankers of the witness. 'When he said he
wished to visit his property, Mr. Cook, senior,
said he was staying with his father, who was
82 years old, in bad health, and could not be disturbed by
visitors. He mentioned that he had plenty of linen and
furniture with which he would supply his son, and that he
was well known to Messrs. Robarts and Curtis, the bankers,
a statement which proved to be unfeunded, as he subse-
quently ascertained. After the marriage Cook's father said
to him, " What are you going to give them, now they are
going away ?" He was much surprised, but Mr. Cook
added, " Oh, you ought to make them a present in money."
He was quite surprised, but he borrowed £lO, which he gave
the respondent. About two or three weeks after the mar-
riage Cook, senior, asked him to lend him £lOO, to prevent
his sacrificing some property, and that he would remit it as
soon as he went to the country. He expressed his surprise
at tie time, but afterwards advanced it to him. He saw
him subsequently when he called and said he was to
come down to his estate on the Ist of September
for a week's shooting. (Loud laughter.) Since
that time he had neither seen nor heard from him. Imme-
diately after the marriage the respondent went abroad
with his daughter, and on his return in a'eout three months
called on him and wanted him to lend him £3O. He refused
to advance a farthing until he was informed where his
father was to be found, or had received the £lOO he had
lent him.

The respondent then cross-examinei the witness after
the Old Bailey fashion and created much laughter. The
latter denied that he had invited him to a goose dinner on
the day of their acquaintance. (Laughter.) Ho did not
ask him to his house In town. Tho reason he did not see
hls father at an earlier period of the acquaintance was, that
the respondent told him he was suffering from the bite and
kick of his horse. (Laughter.) The witness also denied
that ho was acquainted with certain disreputable characters
or that he had been engaged in transactions of a doubtful
description.
Mrs. Cooke, the petaioner, was examined, and deposed
to different acts of ill-treatment on the part of the respon-
dent. - Shortly after the marriage he abused her and made
use of the most profane language. On one occasion he
pinched her and spat in her face, and when she was far ad-
vanced in pregnancy he struck her on the breast with his
closed fist. She suffered severely in her wrist from the
effects of his violence on one occasion, and her person was
frequently covered with bruises from his blows.
Some corroborative evidence was adduced, but the case
was not concluded when we went to press.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE BISHOP ♦ND FARBRIDGE.
These bankrupts were described as of Cornhill, East
India merchants, and this was an adjourned examination
meeting.

A gentleman from the offices of Messrs. Wire and Child
appeared for the assignees, and said that the ac-
counts were very unsatisfactory, as the bankrupts had
kept neither day-book, cash-book, nor ledger, merely a
petty cash-book. The bankrupts had only been in business
for nine months, and he believed they now were indebted
to crafters £lO,OOO, and that there would be no assets.

Mr. Lee, the official assignee, said he had got in about
£2OO.

The solicitor continued, that during the short period he
had stated they had drawn out for their personal expenses
£6OO each. The assignees were willing out of mercy to
allow the bankrupts to pass, but they must decidedly ob-
ject to any allowance being granted.
His Honour—You do not impute that they have con-
cealed any property.

- -
The Solicitor—We cannot say. The affairs are in such a
state of confusion, but it is a most disreputable case.
His Honour—But, if you do not makes positive charge,
I am bound to make some allowance.

After some discussion,
His Honour granted allowances of .£l. 10s. each per week,
up to the day originally appointed for the last examination,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

YANTS.—Two men, named
ethnaragnendnibiedfez e
b h
Herbert Jackson, pork • utc er,
WIIOLESALT;;;.;YSTEIIJAOThnIC
CroLunlYNorDltaiand tau;
Mead, in the employ of Mr.
Mr. Bingham with robbing &c., Mount-street, Grosvenort-square, aerme oeyreer
able extent.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prisoners. The system pursued by the pri-
soners was this :—Every morning the refuse, consisting of
straw, :&c., on the shop being cleaned up, was put into a
basket kept for the purpose, and the prisoners took this op-
P° rtunity of slipping into it any articles convenient,
such as tongues, hands of pork, sausages,
tizc.)
and then conveying the basket to the stable,
whore they had a private store for their master's stock, and
then afterwards disposed of them, and there was very little
doubt that the practice had been going on to a considerable
extent and for a long time.
Inspector -Webb, of the C division, on searching the box
of Mead, found a cigar case worth at least £l, a gold
Albert chain, and several other articles, and £2 3s. 6d. in
gold and silver. In Connor's box, a tank book for £8 re-
cently deposited, gold pin, ring, Albert chain, and £2 ss.
6d. in money were also found.
Mr. Lewis having addressed the magistrate, Mr. Bing-
ham, on the prisoners' behalf, and begging they might be
mercifully dealt with, owing to their previous good cha-
racter.
They wore committed for six months with hard labour.
A PAIR or ARTFUL DODGERS.—Irenry Ricketts and
John Farmer, two lads, who stood in the dock seemingly
the pictures of injured innocence wore charged as follows :
Gordon, 236 A, said that on the previous evening about
7 he saw the prisoners pass and repass the shop, 212, Picca-
dilly, Mr. Hill's, and placing himself in a doorway saw the
prisoner Farmer make two or three tugs at a railway rug,
but in consequence of its being tied he failed in getting it
away. Ile then took them into custody, when Farmer gave
a false address. Ile found on them two silk handkerchiefs.
Farmer—Oh, it's where I used to live.
Gordon said he knew Ricketts as a pickpocket and car-
riage thief, and the other prisoner had been in custody for
robbing a lady.
Lanebert, 68 E, said they were well-known characters.
Ricketts said it was his poor old mother's "wipe" that
was found on him.

Farmer ealat he took nothing, and that was why ho was
cc took,"

Committed for three months each.

On Thursday next Mr. Locke King will move
for a bill for the further securing the liberty of religious
worship.

2111 S DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Only a limited supply of English wheat came fresh to
hand this morning, but the general quality of the samples
exhibited a further improvement. For all kinds—although
the attendance of millers was limited, there was a steady
demand, at prices fully equal to Monday last.
Fine foreign wheats were in somewhat improved request,
but not dearer. Inferior qualities ruled heavy. In floating
cargoes very little was doing.
The barley trade was firm, at extreme currencies.
There was a fair sale for new malt, at full prices, but old,
parcels were very dull.
We have to report a fair demand for oats, and in some
instances the quotations were the turn higher.
Both beans and peas moved off freely, at extreme rates.
Flour commanded full prices.
ARRIVALS THIS WIEIL

Wheat. Barley Malt. Omin rum
lingliah l,OBO r 1,640 2,030 820 1 1,106
Irian
Foreign 620 i 2,490 6,850 300 al
n.
i 1
i

NEWGATE ♦ND LEADENHALL.

The supplies of meat here to-day are seasonably good.
On the whole, a full average business is doing, as follow. :

Per 81bs. by the carcase.
s. d. I. d.
Inferior Beef 2 6to 2 10 1
Mid. d 0..... 3 oto 3 4 i
Pm. large do. 3 6to 4 0 i
Do. small do. 4 2to 4 4
Large pork.. 3 6to 4 2 ;

d. a. d:
Infr. Mutton. I 2to 8 6
Mid. d• 3 3t• 4 Si
Primo do. 4 4to 4 6
Veal 4 4to 5 0
Small pork

BOROUGH HOP.
of new hops, at very full prises. Other qualities move off
slowly, at late rates.
Mid and East Kent pockets 86s to 1608 per cwt.
Weald of Kent do. 668 to 90s ~
Sussex do.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The market has been exceedingly firm, and a rise
of id to id per lb has taken place in most descriptions.
SUGAIL—There have been no public sales within the last
day or two, but a fair business has been transacted in the
private market, prices being fully maintained for all qua-
lilies.

COI-TER.—A steady demand has been experienced for
Plantation Ceylon, and the finer qualities are at slightly
advanced quotations.
IticE.—rhe market remains very quiet, and quotations
are nominally unaltered.
SALTPITRE.—At public sale rather higher rates were
obtained for the better descriptions, and a moderato busi-
ness has been transacted in the private market.
INDIGO.—At the public sales there has been rather more
enquiry for the commoner qualities, and the rates previously
current are fully sustained.
TALLOW.—There has been more activity, and prices have
shown an upward tendency. P.Y.C. on the spot has ad-
vanced to 60s. 6d. ; March delivery 608. 6d.; and April to
Juno 568. 9d. to 575. per cwt.

COUNTRY NARKBTS.

BIRMINGHAM-PBB. 9.
. .

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At to-day's market there was less wheat offering ; filo
trade ruled active, but we make no alteration in our quota.
tions. Fine barley sold for le more money, oats were 64
lower. Beans and peas at former rates.