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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1860.

PRICE .40. STAMPED, SD,

PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the Smithfield
Club. The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds,
Roots, Implements, &c., commences on Tuesday Morning
and closes on Friday Evening 11th, 12th, 13th, and 11th
December.—Bazaar, King-street and Baker-street. Open
from daylight till nine in the Evening. Admittance One
Shilling.

ROYAL GEOGRAPb'JCAL SOCIETY.

IRE NAVY.

THE ARMY.

On Monday evening the large room at Burlington House,
in which the Geographical Society hold their meetings, was
crowded to hear a communication from Captain Maury, of
the United States, on the physical geography of the
Antarctic Regions. The president (Lord Ashburton) occu-
pied the chair ; and before the business appropriated
fur the evening commenced, he mentioned that
another letter had been received from Captain Speke, who
is endeavouring to reach the sources of the Nile, and
he stated that the Geographical Society were so much im-
pressed with the importance of sending an armed expedi-
tion to assist and protect Captain Speke from the hostile
tribes in the north of Africa, that the council had,contrary
to their usual custom, contributed £lOO for that purpose,
and the Foreign-office had contributed a similar amount.
It was hoped, therefore, that these sums, added to the pri-
vate subscriptions, would enable Mr. Consul Petherick to
start on his proposed route.
Mr. GALTON, of the Foreign-office, read extracts from
Capt. Speke's letter, dated the 23d October from Zanguebar,
in which he stated that he started on the 25th September
with his Rotten tot guard, and that they had proved ex- I
tremely useful, though he feared they would not be proof
against the influence of the climate, as some of them had
already been attacked with fever. Capt. Speke wrote in
terms of confidence that he should accomplish the objects of
his expedition, and expressed a hope that Mr. Petherick
would meet him.
Captain MAunv was heartily greeted when he came for-
ward to address the meeting, which he did in a forcible
manner, and only occasionally referred to his notes. He

Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Serpent was
yesterday undocked at Woolwich, :and the new
sloop Rosario, launched at Deptford in Nov, last,
was docked in its place, to be prepared for service.
The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt, S.
Seccombe, had her steam got up yesterday (Tues-
day) morning, in Plymouth Sound, for the pur-
pose of going into Hamoaze to undergo repair, but
owing to the boisterous state of the weather she
did not make the attempt.
Mr. Thunder, engineer of the Hero, 91, was by
sentence of court-martial, on Monday, at Plymouth,
dismissed from that ship.
The paddlewheel steam store-ship Rh adamanthus,
4, Master Commander F. R. Sturdee, took on board
new boats, and proceeded yesterday (Tuesday) from
Plymouth for Deptford.
The screw steam corvette Charybdis, 21, Capt.
Keane, at Devonport, is to be fitted and stored as
soon as possible, when she will sail for her destina-
tion, the East Indies. Having been cleaned and her
valves overhauled, she was removed yesterday
(Tuesday) from No. 3 dock in Keyham steam-yard,
and placed in the lock, preparatory to going into
Hamoaze to-day (Wednesday).
The screw steam gunboat Porpoise, tender to the
Royal Albert, 121, was put into No. 4 dock in the
Devonport dockyard on Monday morning to have
defects made good.
The screw steam frigate Ariadne, 26, Capt. Van-
sittart, was appointed to be hauled into Keyham
basin yesterday (Tuesday), for docking to-day
(Wednesday).

The hired transport Sultana, having on board
700 tons of stores for Hong Kong, and being de-
tained at Woolwich about 14 days, in consequence
of the counter-order relative to the departure of
troop of the Military Train undgr orders for China,
has filled in with provisions and hospital stores from
Deptford, and has sailed from Woolwich for her
destination. The men having volunteered for the
service from various troops belonging to the Ist
Battalion are ordered to be again dispersed through
the battalion for home duty.
The attention of the French Government having
been called to the existence and merits of the Me-
chanics' Institute and Library in Woolwich Arse-
nal by the recent publication in. Paris of M.
Esquino's historical book, containing some descrip-
tive and circumstantial remarks on that institution,
dotted down during his inspection of the depart-
ments of the arsenal last year, Col. Tulloh, superin-
tendent of the carriage department, has received a
parcel, through the medium of the Secretary of
State for War in Pall-mall, by order of his Majesty
the Emperor Napoleon, enclosing a couple of heavy
volumes for presentation to the above-named esta-
blishment, entitled "Journal d'Olivier Lefevre
d'Ormeson," published by M. Chereuil, and " Les
Documents inedits sur l'Histoire de France," pub-
lished by M. Charriere. Mr. Fullom, chief clerk
in the Royal Carriage Department, yesterday ac-
knowledged his Imperial Majesty's appreciation of
the institute on behalf of the committee in a letter,
which was forwarded through the same source, and
the volumes are ordered to be bound and to be
placed on the shelves of the library for perusal and
instruction.

THE BUCKLEYS TN LONDON, at th© ST.
it. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly, Every Night at 8, and
Saturday Afternoon at 3. Full Programme and Tickets may
be obtained at 28, Piccadilly, from 10 till FS, and at Prin-
cipal Libraries and llinsiesellers.—Admission, Stalls, 3s. ;
Area, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.—Doors open at Half-past Seven, and
Saturday Afternoon, at Half-past Two.

CAPTAIN MORTON PRICE and Miss
CATHARINE LUCETTE every evening at the Prince
of Wales-hall, Regent-street, in their MUSICAL ME-
LANGE, and with which they achieved their great success
in the United States and Canada. Doors open at half-past
7. Admission as., 25., and ls. ; children in arms, £1 la.
Tickets to be had at the hall from 12 to 4.—Charles Dudley,
General Manager

commenced by noticing the nautical congress at Brussels
in 1853, at which a plan of observations was determined
on by the representatives of England, the United
—States, Holland, France, and Russia ; and, in accord-
ance with that plan, instructions were given to the
commanders of the ships of those nations to make observa-
tions in all latitudes. The result had been the collection of
upwards of a million observations on the currents of the
ocean, the direction of the winds, the temperature, the
height of the barometer, and other meteorological phe•
nomena, the whole of which Captain Maury undertook to
discuss, and some of the results of which he described. He
stated that, in pursuing the investigation of the physical
geography of the sea, the inquirer is led into the exami-
tion of phenomena connected with various sciences,
which he must pursue to arrive at satisfactory conclu-
sions. The points to which he especially directed the
attention of the meeting were the directions and variations
of the trade winds north and south of the equator, and the
difference in the temperature and in the height of the
barometer. Taking bands of latitude five miles wide from
the equator, he found that on the south the direction of the
wind in the bands nearest the equator was more southerly
than in the bands more remote, until, on arriving at
south latitude between 35 deg. and 40 deg., the wind
during exactly half the year was southerly, and for
the other half northerly. The much larger propor-
tion of water in the southern hemisphere is sufficient to
account for its warmer temperature, and Captain Mau4r
supposes the effect to be produced by the greater fall of
rain observed in the south. On the coast of Patagonia
the annual fall of rain, if estimated from the observed fall
during 41 days, must be nearly 12ft., instead of 2ft.,
as in the neighbourhood of London; and this great con-
densation of the vapour he assumes causes it to part
with its latent heat and warm the atmosphere. The
lowest state of the barometer in the southern hemi-
sphere he did not attempt to explain, but contented him-
self with mentioning the fact that the average of a
vast number of observations shows that the mean
height of the barometer .is half an inch less than north
of the equator. Beyond 60 degrees south the wind blows
generally towards the pole, and this regular current of air
Captain Maury attributes to the comparative heat of the
antarctic regions. Another curious fact is that the wind
is much stronger in the south of the equator than on the
north. The frequent appearance of large icebergs in the
antarctic seas indicates that there must be land there, for
icebergs are never formed at sea ; and he called on the
Royal Geographical Society to promote explorations to the
South Pole, which might open important resources. He
said that the region to be explored, of which we now know
no more than of the moon, is only ten days' steam from
Australia; and if this country did not shortly undertake
to investigate the hidden treasures of the antarctic circle,
the United States would "go a-head."
Admiral FITZROY eulogised Captain Maury's exertions in
promoting the knowledge of the physical geography of the
sea, and mentioned some of the important practical results
which had been obtained from his labours in facilitating
the navigation of the ocean. The Government of the
United States, he said, had acted with the utrnostlibstality
in supplying gratuitously the 700 quarto volumes of sailing
directions, compiled by Captain Maury, and 12,000 charts,
which were of the greatest use to all navigators.
Captain WASHINGTON was of opinion that little benefit
would be derived from antarctic exploration, and he re-
minded Captain Maury that Cooke, Ross, and other cele-
brated navigators had already made the attempt. He said
that the United States had done less than any other mari-
time nation in making explorations, and as their whalers
were very numerous in the south seas, he advised Captain
Maury to recommend his own Government to make the
attempt, for he was sure the Government of this country
would not. He wished to know what was likely to be
found in the frozen antarctic regions that would be worth
the !search ?

The paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, 6, Com-
mander Bedford C. T. Pim, from Portsmouth, ar-
rived at Plymouth yesterday (Tuesday), and went
into Hamoaze. She will coal and provision, and take
the mooring brig Swift under her care, and then
proceed to the Cape of Good Hope.
The North Star, 22 guns, a splendid screw cor-
vette, 400 horse power, with covered deck, is being
built in the Sheerness dockyard. Her armament
will consist of 20 guns, 8 feet 10 inches long, weigh-
ing 90 cwt. each, and two pivot guns, 10 feet long,
weighing 90 cwt. each. Her tonnage will be 1,856
and 82.94. As soon as she is launched a similar
vessel, to be named the Weymouth, is to be imme-
diately commenced.

IA TV INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 26.

COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMO
NIAL CAUSES.

Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Justice Wigh
man, and Mr. Justice Williams.)
THE SHEDDEN CASE-JUDGMENT.

Mr. Collier, Q.C., having concluded his reply,
the Court, after a few minutes' adjournment, pro-
ceeded at once to pronounce sentence upon the
questions which had been submitted to it.

The Judge Ordinary said they had now arrived
at the last stage of this very singular inquiry, an
inquiry the length and complexity of which had
caused the Court to feel in a very considerable de-
gree the responsibility that rested upon them.
There were two or three circumstances, however,
which somewhat diminished that feeling. In the
first place the evidence had been given somewhat
slowly, and so much immaterial matter had been
mixed up with what was material that they had
had abundant time to consider the weight that
should be assigned to the latter. Another circum-
stance that might have embarrassed them was the
fact that the female petitioner had been left for a
considerable time to conduct the cause without the
assistance of counsel ; but the intimate knowledge
which she had displayed with every fact, material
or immaterial, connected with the history of her
family, and the singular tact and dexterity which
she had shown in the management of her case, en-
tirely relieved the Court from any apprehension
on that score. Besides, a portion of the evidence
had been given, and the whole had been very
ably commented upon by an experienced coun-
sel. Lastly, the Court felt that the case was
not a question depending upon nicely balanced
evidence, but it was one upon which they had
all been enabled to come to a most clear and
unhesitating judgment. The question was simply
this :—Had a marriage in fact been solemnised,
whether with or without religious rites, between
the father and the mother of the elder petitioner
before he was born ? During fourteen days the
court had had to discharge the functions of jury-
men ; but they could not content themselves with
giving, like jurymen, a simple verdict of aye or
no—they felt bound to state the reasons from
which they drew the conclusions to which they had
come; The facts on which the case turned were not
numerous. The evidence given by the petitioners
of the alleged marriage was confined to what was
called habit and repute ; but they said that at this
distance of time it would not be reasonable to ex-
pect them to supply better testimony of the fact.
Now the first question that suggested itself in deal-
ing with the case was, why should the marriage
have been a secret one ? The only reason they had
now attempted to suggest was that Mr. Wilson,
the father of the bride, objected to the match be-
cause the difference between her age and the age of
Mr. Shedden was too great ; and then it was said
that immediately after this secret marriage the
parties cohabited together as man and wife, down
to the death of the petitioner's father ; that in the
meantime everybody knew of it ; and that Mrs.
Shedden visited and was visited by the ladies of
New York. But what a strange reason to give for
keeping a marriage secret ! If Mr. Wilson ob-
jected to his daughter being married to Mr. Shed-
den because he was too old, would he be reconciled
to the idea of her cohabiting with him without
being married so far as he knew at all ? But, again,
was this the reason the petitioner had always
given ? In 1833 he was in treaty with Mr. Patrick
for thepurchase of the Roughwood estate, and in a
letter of the 14th June he wrote, "Though I am
' unable to establish my right just now, yet what is
known on the subject would not be in your
favour. I conceive it my duty to inform-you
that my sister told me that my mother was a
respectable young person, living with her parents
on a small farm on my father's estate, and that
he did not publicly acknowledge her on account
of hor humble birth, but that he nevertheless
treated her as his wife." If that was so, what
became of the reason now alleged for the secresy
of the match ? This, by the way, was the letter
of a man who stated that till 1848 or 1849 he had
never had the slightest intimation that any mar-
riage had taken place until the ceremony which
was performed on his father's deathbed. But this
was not all. He went on to say : —" Moreover my
sister told me in 1829, when she mentioned this cir-
cumstance tome, that a woman was still living who
was present at the private marriage." After these
' two opposite reasons assigned for the secret mar-
riage, what confidence could be felt in the evidence
of habit and repute ? Against that evidence there
was the testimony of Mr. Neilson, who declared
that Mr. Shedden always passed for a single man,
and who was of much greater age than those wit-
nesses who had been examined on the other side.
There was likewise the evidence of John Barr,
which, if Barr had not perjured himself, was ex-
ceedingly strong. If the case had stopped here he
(the learned judge) might, perhaps, have felt some
embarrassment, though he believed he should even
then have held that the petitioners had not adduced
sufficient affirmative evidence to warrant his form-
ing a judicial opinion that a marriage had taken
place previous to 1798. With regard to the death-
bed marriage on the 7th of Nov. In that year, what
reason could be ask igncd for taking that step ? It
could not, on the hypothesis:of the petitioners, have
been taken in order to make reparation for any
wrong done to Anne Wilson ; neither could it have
been prompted by a religious scruple as to the law-
fulness of matrimonial cohabitaitlonwithout the
i
sanction of the Church, because A r. Shedden well
knew that his cohabitation with the mother of the
petitioner would never again be resumed. What ,
other cause was there ? It was suggested that the
deceased might have thought that a second mar-
riage might have been easier of proof than the first.
But that could hardly be. All New York, it was
said, knew of the first marriage, and Mrs. Shedden
visited and was visited by the families of Dr. Bos-
well, Mrs. Rankin, Mr. Hamilton, Judge Pendle-
ton, and the other persons of repute of whose
acquaintance the petitioners boasted. The
deceased might moreover have made a de-
claration which would have been conclusive.
The only other motive for the marriage was
the idea that it would legitimate the children whom
the parties had had out of wedlock; and that, so
long as it suited his case, was the reason assigned
by the petitioner himself. He had been continu-
ally pressing upon his uncle the fact that his
father had always intended him to have the Rough-
wood property, and that he (Mr. Patrick) had
basely availed himself of a technical objection to
defeat the intention of the deceased. It had been
suggested, indeed, that Mr. Shedden had by some
means been led to suspect that there would be a,
conspiracy to deny his former marriage ; and t1:1;
to make sure he had had the marriage re-solemnised
i,lll
with ecclesiastical forms. If there really had been
such a design, who could have been parties_nPatrick to the
conspiracy ? Clearly no one but Mr. John
in New York, and Mr. Wm, or Mr. Robert Patrick

The Orestes, 21 guns, 400-horse power, screw
steam corvette, which was launched in August last,
has undergone a trial of her engines, which worked
admirably. Her engines are of a new description,
called " plunger" engines, and were manufactured
by Messrs. Napier and Son, of Glasgow. She
is now in No. 3 dock, having her salt water distil-
ling apparatus fitted. The Orestes is considered one
of the handsomest vessels afloat, and is much ad-
mired as a piece of naval architecture.
The Collingwood, 80, sailing ship, is in No. 2
dock, Sheerness, being converted into a screw steam
vessel, 400-horse power, and is near completion.
The Leander occupies No. 1 dock, and is being con-
verted from a sailing ship into a screw steam frigate,
400-horse power, having been lengthened some 40
feet amidships. In the basin are the Anson, 91,
screw steamship, 800-horse power; Atlas, 91, screw
steamship, 800-horse power; Newcastle, 51, screw
steam frigate, 600-horse power ; all of which are
having their boilers and engines fitted, and are or-
dered to be brought forward immediately for the
first class steam reserve. There are also in the basin

the Wanderer, 4, screw steam despatch boat, 200-
horse power, and the Virago, 6 paddlewheel sloop,
300-horse power, both of which are undergoing re-
pairs and being fitted for the first-class steam ordi-
nary.

Orders have been received at Sheerness to prepare
the Malacca, 17 screw steam sloop, 200-horse power,
for the first class steam reserve, and to hold her in
readiness for the pennant.

The Cumberland, 70, guardahip of the steam or-
dinary, Capt. C. F. Schoenberg, has been paid wages
under the superintendence of Capt. C. Wise, super-
intendent of her Majesty's dockyard, and her crew
granted eight days' leave.

The Miranda, 15, screw steam sloop, Commander
H. C. Glyn, left Sheerness harbour on Monday, and
proceeded on trial of her engines, after undergoing
the necessary repairs, 'which were found to work
satisfactorily, Notwithstanding the unfavourable-
ness of the weather (a strong wind and tide being
against her), she attained a mean speed of 8 knots
an hour. She was inspected yesterday by Vice-Ad-
miral W. J. Hope Johnstone, commander-in-chief,
and staff, and sailed for Plymouth.
The lihrracouta, 6, paddle, Commander W. Wood,
whose arrival at Spithead from the West Indies
with invalids was reported in The Sun yesterday,
hauled down the yellow quarantine flag from her
fore yesterday morning, and discharged her invalids
to hospital. She will go into Portsmouth harbour
this morning.

Captain MAURY—Everything. (Loud laughter and ap-
plause.)
Sir LEOPOLD MTLINTOCK confirmed Captain Maury's
opinion, that icebergs are formed on land and launched on
the water.

Sir E. BELCHER was inclined to attribute the warmer
temperature of the southern hemisphere to the Gulf Stream,
which flows along the whole coast of South America, and
even around Cape Horn.

Captain JANSEN, of Holland, mentioned that by taking
advantage of Capt. Maury's sailing directions the passage
from Holland to Java and to Australia had been made in
10 and 16 days' shorter time than by the previous course.:
Capt. MAURY replied to the remarks of Capt. Washing-
ton, observing that he was " stealing his thunder," for he
(Captain Maury) claimed Captain Cooke as an American/
(Loud laughter.)

The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8.,
lying at Spithead, had the " blue peter" flying all
yesterday, and was expected to have proceeded to
her destination—the West Indies—but was detained
until past sunset picking up stragglers. She was
to sail last evening, or at latest, at daylight this
morning.

After some observations from the President, thanks were
voted to Captain Maury, and the meeting adjourned.

STATE OF TRADE.

The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Capt. Sir F. L. 111‘Clin-
tack, alongside Portsmouth dockyard, has com-
menced caulking and making good defects to paddle
boxes and bulwarks.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 27.—There has been a very
steady market for yarns, and prices are gradually
gaining in strength in consequence of the large
business done on Thursday and Friday last for
China ; shippers to China have been the chief buyers,
but a few considerable purchases have been made
for Calcutta. Prices are fully id. per lb. higher
than last Tuesday, and the market closes very firm
at the advance. There is not much business re-
ported for the home trade, and the Germans, who
had begun to operate at the point of extreme
depression, are now holding back. In cloths, as
in yarn, a considerable business was done on
Thusrday and Friday in fabrics suited to the China
trade, at a slight advance on last Tuesday's rates.
The letters from Shanghai and other commercial
ports, however, do not report the market there as
in a very satisfactory state, and it is supposed that
the purchases here were of a speculative character.
Some purchases were also made for India. Accord-
ing to letters from Calcutta prices were a little
higher at last dates, and a rather more cheerful
feeling prevailed. To-day we have not had much
business for either China or India, but prices re-
tain the slight advance gained on China goods.
Printing cloths are not so easy to sell at last Tues-
day's rates. Longcloths and T-cloths only in
moderate demand, at last Tuesday's prices.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :—" On Wed-
nesday last, owing to the prospect of an easier
money-market, there was rather a better demand
for goods generally, and the downward tendency of
prices was arrested. On Thursday an active de-
mand set in for 40-inch shirtings and other goods
for China, and a large business was done in them at
an advance of 14. to 3d. per piece on Tuesday's
prices. There is less doing to-day, but this is
owing more to the long engagements of manu-
facturers than to any falling off in the demand.
Longloths and T-cloths have also been in more
request, and in some instances a slight advance
has been realized."
LEEDS, 27th.—There has been but a small atten-
dance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning, and
the purchases made were confined to small parcels,
as they have been for the last few market days.
The trade at the warehouses, too, is rather flat, but
not more so than is usual at this intermediate sea-
son of the year. The country clothiers report
that they are not brisk, but that they are moderately
well employed. Prices continue steady, and those
of wool keep creeping up, but they cannot be quoted
higher than last week.
ROCHDALE, 26th.—The flannel market has not
been very well attended to-day, the wetness of the
weather having kept several parties away. The
trade, however, was a shade better than last week.
The chief demand is for home consumption, little
being doing at present by the export houses. Lan-
cashire and Welsh imitations and Saxonies are
quiet, but dyed goods are very active for the season,
and there continues to be a good sale for Yorkshire
goods. Prices in general are firm. There has not
been much demand for wool to-day, but prices are
steady. Upon the whole the operatives in the
flannel trade are well employed.

The Algiers, 91, screw, Capt. G. D. O'Callaghan,
will go out of Portsmouth harbour to-day, and take
up a berth at Spithead.
The communication between Nos. 7 and 10 docks
in Portsmouth yard, now being carried out by the
contractors, Messrs. G. Smith and Co., of Pimlico,
is ordered to be completed by the Ist of March
next, as the docks will then be required by the
authorities for the purpose of receiving the Warrior,
iron cased frigate, now building by the Thames
Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company. On the
completion of the work, these two docks, by the
removal of the central caisson, can be thrown into
one, with a total length of 615 feet, the caissons
being placed in the sunk grooves at each end. By
using the western rebate and the steam basin out-
side groove for the caissons the total length may
be increased to 645 feet. The breadth and the
depth will be necessarily very unequal, the new
portion, or No. 10 dock, as it is now termed, being
of greater depth than No. 7 by five feet, and also
of greater width in that portion which will be the
nearest point in contact with a ship's bilges. The
breadth between the entrance gate piers and the
coping will be 83 feet at one end and 80 feet at the
other.

The homogeneous metal introduced a short time
ago in Woolwich factory for forging steam boilers
is ordered by the Board of Admiralty to be applied
experimentally in the manufacture of chains, links,
and similar purposes, and to be reported on accord-
ingly, after being carefully tested.
The entry of additional smiths, metal workers, and
foundrymen at Chatham Dockyard, to be employed
on the iron-plated war steamer intended to be built
at that establishment, is to be suspended for the
present, in consequence of the whole of the prepa-
rations not having been yet completed for commenc-
ing the huge ship. Additional workshops and forges
will have to be erected in close proximity to the
second dock, in which she is to be built, but as yet no
commencement of these erections has been made.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. Henry T. Bogers, to the Jason ; Lieut.
G. T. Medd, to the Flying Fish ; Lieut. F. S. V. Meulin,
to the Marlborough, additional, for disposal ; R. P. W.
Powney, midshipman, to the Jason ; F. J. Easther, mid-
shipman to the Harier ; J. Sproule, surgeon, to the Ariel ;
and Joshua Connolly, acting 3d class assistant .engineer,
to the Cumberland.

The Calcutta quotations of Rupee paper by the
present mail show an advance of per cent., which has
been followed by a rise of per cent. on this side, the dos-
ing, quiptations to-day being 94 tot for the Five per cent§,,
act 1011 to I for tke Eye and-a-Half per Cents,

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,c_tpy „ sue idea, that he would
have appuire dulent nephew in New
York his executor, ..ant. frauduiteinihphcw in
Edinburgh the guardian o iis ine, The
notion was too absurd. lie ( it C.' !- *well) no
came to the letter of Nov. ' , 1798,- wleivir it was
admitted would, if genuin at once put an end to
the case. In the first . ace, was it not probable
that such a letter mild have been written by a
man in the eiretrnistioices of Mr. Sheddeu ? Was it
not likely net in avowing the existence of his son
he would write to his nephew,. whom he appointed
guardian, to bespeak his kindness on behalf of the
boy ? But before the letter was written Mr. John
Patrick had announced to Mr. William Patrick the
deatJa-bed marriage, stating that Mr. Shedden's
object in this proceeding was to rescue from a state
of bastardy, and introduce into the world, with all
The privileges appertaining to those born under the
influence of the law, two infant children, one a girl
about six years of age and the other a boy of
about
five. The ceremony took place on the 7th instant
—i
toirtis himevaaismtNe.o.aen
i atilimaiicl struggle,lreimitilebivattetdh.e„coAnshllietrtale-
futther on he said, " liesildee the two children men-
tioned lie has one other, a girl, about 12 years old,
by another woman, who is long dead—his very
image, but who can reap no benefit from the mea-
sures adopted, being considered in the eve of the
law a bastard. So that Mr. John Patrick distin-
guished between the status of the two children of
Anne Wilson and the child of the deceased by
another woman; and it was perfectly clear that he
(Mr. Patrick) believed at that time that the death-
. bed marriage would be effectual for the purpose for
which it was said it was designed—namely, for the
legitimisation of the petitioner and his sister. What
possible object could he have in entering into a
conspiracy to write a letter like that ? To Mr.
Patrick's letter was appended this postscript :
"Nov. 11. In the morning Mr. Shedden gradually
approached his end. He has looked into his affairs,
and wrote to his friends. He has two important
letters to write, and he dies contented. One is to
you, respecting his children, &c." So that the de-
ceased had only one letter to write to Mr. 'William
Shedden. The original letter was not forthcoming,
but instead of that there was what purported to be
a copy of it, attested by John Mills, who had been
ascertained to have been a clerk in Mr. Shedden's
employment. Another copy of it had come by
another ship, also attested by Mills ; and, he would
ask, what ground was there for suspecting that
Mills, whom Mr. Shedden had actually remembered
in his will, would lend himself to so abominable a
falsehood as to copy as his master's a letter fabri-
cated by some one else. The letter began—" MY
very dear Nephew,—My long and painful illness
must apologise for my long silence. I am now
going to quit this world. I have married Miss
Anne Wilson, which is approved of by my friends
here, and which restores her and two fine children
I have by her to honour and credit." The whole pith
of the document was in the one word " restores ;"
and Mr. John Patrick must have been very cunning
indeed to have hit upon a phrase which conveyed
so much without making any positive statement at
all. If he had fabricated the letter he would pro-
-1 bably have made it run—" I have hitherto lived
Iwith Anne Wilson, but now I:have married her."
Then the letter went on actually to tell Mr. Pat-
rick the name of the boy. The family was one
that prided itself not a little on its pedigree,
and yet Mr. Shedden had never announced the
birth of his heir, as he would no doubt have done
if he had had a legitimate son born to him. The
letter was quite consistent with the will, and also
with the letter of Anne Wilson, which had been
sometimes relied upon and sometimes repudiated
by the petitioner, jest as it suited his purpose. The
original letter, as he had said, was not produced.
What had become of it ? Mr. Wm. Patrick said
H that he had given it to the petitioner, and that the
latter had never returned it, There was some
evidence that that was true ; for, in a letter of the
petitioner in 1829 he said, referring to some letters
Mr. Patrick had sent him, "As I have never seen
my father's handwriting, and as it probably con-
tains his last signature, you will easily believe that
it is a very dear relic to me." Mr. John Patrick
had said that Mr. Shedden had two letters to write,
one of them to Mr. Wm. Patrick, and there was,
therefore, every probability that letter referred to
was the one sent to the petitioner. Nevertheless,
in his petition to the House of Lords, and in his
evidence on oath before this court, he had stated
that he never saw even the duplicate of the docu-
ment till 1819. Nor was that all. In one of his
letters he was complaining, as it would seem, of
Mr. Wm. Patrick's conduct in sending to America
to see if the deceased had really married Anne
Wilson ; and so he said, " and just to think of you
sending to America for a certificate when you had
received my father's own letters, telling you of his
marriage to my mother." It was impossible to re-
' concile that with the petitioner's subsequent state-
ments. It was quite clear that John Patrick had
no doubt but that the deathbed marriage would
have been sufficient ; and that John William
Patrick would have accepted the guardianship.
Rut John William Patrick felt that there was a
doubt as to the effect of that marriage, and as he
was agent for his brother Robert, who, in the event
of the petitioners proving illegitimate, would be
the heir, he refused to accept the trust in his
brother's absence. Mr. Crawford was the ap-
pointed tutor. Mr. Crawford, who was a respect.
able man, though he thought that the judgment
of the Court of Session was a strong one, and one
that would be affirmed by the House of Lords,
thought it his duty to appeal to the ultimate tri-
bunal. As to the case having been fairly argued
there, no one could entertain any doubt who had
read the wonderful, acute, and learned case pre-
pared by Lord Brougham—the only one he had
ever drawn up for the House of Lords. Yet on
the mere surmise, he must be charged with having
assisted Mr. Patrick to plunder the estate. The
charge of fraud against Mr. Patrick having fallen
to the ground the whole case of the petitioner must
fall with it ; and he (the learned judge) must there-
fore pronounce that he, William Patrick Ralston
Shedden, was not a legitimate child of his father,
and was consequently not a natural-born British
subject. One word as to the position in which the
petitioners were left by this decision. For the male
petitioner he could have no sympathy. He might
have brooded over his fancied wrongs until he had
lost his faculty of judgment ; but the course he
pursued had been such as must totally exclude him
from sympathy. For the female petitioner, he
(Sir C. Cresswell) did feel most deeply. He had
no doubt that she had been brought up in a full
belief ,of the truth of her father's story ; and from
the intimate knowledge which she had shown of
every particle of evidence connected with the case,
it was clear that she had dwelt upon it for years
and years with the unhesitating confidencet ofasa
dutiful and affectionate child, until it had at t
hat
become interwoven with her very nature
It' shre was It
tams tuostbebethneneconnfsetqwunenticieinogfs.thisjudgmeninteotherP
liashstaairnasedsing
con-
vinced by it she would live under
sense and conviction that she had s
If she was con-
vinced, remedy—a position sad enough. grievous wrong for which she whas unableapteorioobatafi.aanr
whicht to nie uhrand and
embittered lament overthe
conductwould I
who for
thatvin e e course she
life had
exceeding an ordinary been loved and
have
latter days of an aged man,
whose integrity had been impeached
through her instrumentality ; and who had been
honoured,.
subjected to a relentless persecution which had
been carried on by unfounded aspersions and most
unjustifiable litigation.
Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice Williams
emphatically concurred, and the decree was made
accordingly.
On the motion of Mr. Q Bov ill 1 .0 ~ the petitioners
were condemned in the costs, and certain papers
which they had obtained from
Mr Patrick in the
viele
Court of Session,'
ordered to be restored to
him.

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