The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

LONDON MONDAY EVENINU, JULY 2, 1860.

THE SUN,

spiritual power for the greater advantage of the
Church, but protects him from even the imputation
of want of freedom or impartiality to which he
might be occasionally exposed were he the subject
of another Sovereign or a dependent on his bounty."
Bishop Walsh emphatically denies that the
Pope's own happy subjects have had any hand in
the rebellion against their Sovereign. Indeed, the
chief fomentors of the strife are to be found among
the advisers of the Queen of England :

" It is said that the persons who have organised
rebellion against the Pope are his own Catholic
people. The falsehood of this statement has been
repeatedly shown ; but it is idle to attempt to put
to shame or silence the wickedness of perverse men.
A small number of irreligious and flagitious persons,
aided by the countenance and money of strangers
and of persons of great influence, could easily awe
into silence the peaceable and well-disposed people,
who constitute nearly the whole population. The
Italians who oppose the Pope may call themselves
Catholic, but ' all are not Israelites that are of Is-
rael.' fhey conspire against the Vicar of Christ
much in the same spirit as the scribes and Phari-
sees—who, no doubt, reputed themselves a portion
of the people of God—conspired against our Divine
Master. It is peculiarly painful to us to reflect
that the persecution of the Pope seems to have re-
ceived considerable encouragement from some of
our statesmen. Such conduct appears clearly to
indicate a hatred of Catholicity. The allegation
that these men arc actuated by a zeal for the free-
dom and the benefit of the Italians will not, upon
reflection, be fo'ind to be sustained. If they were
moved by a spirit of philanthropy, they could find
ample room for its exercise in our own country,
which certainly has—upon their attention and duty
—claims much higher than any foreign land.
When the men—who boast their zeal for the liberty
and happiness of the Italians—neglect to aid in
providing in their own country for the social free-
dom and happiness which are so much wanted, one
cannot but doubt the sincerity of their professions.
If they be solicitous for the happiness of men, let
them begin at home."
THE LATE RIBAND ARRESTS.

It is reported that the Attorney and Solicitor-
General and Mr. Serjeant Lawson will conduct the
prosecution of the eleven Ribandmen lately arrested
ii the town of Dundalk. The assizes for the county
of Louth commence on Wednesday next.

JAPAY AND CHINA.

The following i 3 an extract of a letter from a
British naval office' :

" We left Port Royal on April 21, sailed down to
Aspinwall, the nem American name for Colon, in
the Isthmus of Panama; we arrived there on the

25th, and found the American frigate Roanoke
lj ing there. We found that we had arrived at a
very opportune time, for the Japanese Ambassadors
had just arrived by train from Panama, and had
embarked on board the Roanoke, and were going
to start that evening for New York. So we were
the first Britishers to welcome this peculiar, but
clever, race of Celestials to the ocean of the wes-
tern hemisphere. We went on board the Roanoke,

and were received with great attention by the
American officer , and were introduced to their
Japanese eminences. They are a very diminutive
nice, of the true Mongolian cast, but their eyes
beam with intelligence; they all carry a Japanese
and English vocabulary, and are continually refer-
ring to it; and their guardian (a Captain Taylor,
of the United States Marines) informed us that they
are very quick in picking up the language. Their
dress is somewhat similar to that of the Chinese,
but their trousers more resemble ' knickerbockers'
—they carry two long knives in their belts, and a
dagger concealed in their bosom. These knives
answer two purposes, they are either used
in the defence of their country, or for
the purpose of killing themselves if they be-
come disgraced, which is effected by the unfor-
tunate individual ripping himself open ; should
he fail in doing this his whole family are supposed
to attempt the same—the order given by the Em-
peror is expressed in the single word vanish.'
The American officers on board the Powhattan
man-of-war, on the Pacific side of the water, had
great difficulty in preventing the Ambassadors
cutting some of their servants' heads off on their
passage across for having disobeyed some trivial
orders. The Ambassadors and suite numbered 70
in all, and brought with them 82 tons of luggage,
including battle-axes, and beautifully enamelled
shields and staffs, with clubs headti, which they call
standards.' They all carry small fans, and look
more like women '—l mean the Mongolian female
—than men. The interpreter, who spoke broken
English, said, 'By and bye we go to England,
must go first back to Nangasaki.' Capt. Taylor,
and several other officers who came across with
them, formed part of the American embassy to
Pekin. It is commonly reported that they were
transported through the country in boxes; but
Capt. Taylor informed me that these are the
chariots of the country, and they could see per-
fectly well the country through which they were
borne. The latter part of the journey was made in
row junks.' Capt. Taylor describes the country
as low and fiat, and devoid of interest, with a few
mounds here and there ; but he could not say
whether they were fortified or not. He saw some
stake forts on the banks of the river, but did not see
any guns. Pekin very much resembles Canton, but
is much larger, and is said to contain 3,000,000 in-
habitants ; the streets being very narrow and dirty,
and the odour of them far from being pleasant.
They were not allowed, on their arrival at Pekin,
to converse or communicate in any way with the
Russian embassy. Capt. Taylor's opinion was,
that if we did have war we should have harder
fighting than Chinese warfare hitherto had been,
but that it was very probable that if we began
boldly that the Chinese would throw the whole
river open, pay down, and say Come up.' A
mandarin asked him if he thought the
English would make them pay for the
gunboats lost at the Peiho, and how much,
and if tkey would want them to raise the sunken
gunboats. This will be about the first genuine
account you will have of the Japanese embassy.
They go to New York to see the President, and
after they have had their fling will return to Japan:
The next day the admiral and his staff, 10 of us in
all, started off by rail for Panama. Having crossed
the Isthmus of Suez, it was a double source of cu-
riosity and interest to me in crossing this one by
rail. We all know what hardships they under-
went in making the Suez railway, from the total
absence of water, and sand-storms continually de-
stroying their work. On this, however but a few
yards from the sea, man found before him a dense
jungle of thick underwood and lofty trees, and deep
boggy swamps. Nothing daunted he began, and
though the lives lost are reckoned as one man to
every sleeper, yet in the space of three years a line
was made and the forest cut through for a distance
of 52 miles; thus opening a communication with
the other portions of the globe, and saving a pas-
sage of 14,000 miles. The line rises till within a
few miles of Panama, the summit of the ascent
being 240 feet above the level of the sea. For 10
ran nlnttg bauha yr U e tairts..a river,
a sluggish stream at this season, but in the rainy
season it is a rushing torrent. In fact this river is
the great drawback to the formation of a canal
across the Isthmus, as the rains are so heavy that
the banks would be continually washed away at
intervals of six miles along the line. The enter-
prising Yankees, Dutchmen, and Britishers have
made clearances, and built very nice houses for the
inspectors of the road. The forests are filled with
tropical flowers and flowering trees. Of Panama I
have little to say. Large hotels are being built,
but the drawback is the want of a harbour. Ves-
sels are obliged to lie three or four miles off the
town. The towers of the churches are covered
with the pearl oyster shells in lieu of tiles, and pre-
sent a very curious appearance. We procured
some Mexican horses, and rode over the extensive
savannahs. The grassy plains would make many
of our English gentry's parks look small, not only
from their extent but the richness of verdure.
Here and there are topes covered with the wild
banana and other fruit trees. The whole country
makes one feel the beauty and force of the lines—
' These are Thy glorious works, parent of good,
Almighty !"rhe age of these trees is of course
unapproachable. Man can do nothing but admire
and be lost in conjecture. We returned the next
day to Aspinwall. Our bill at Panama was truly
o Californian."

but a dreamer's wildest dream. Now it is a pro-
spect that can only be marred by foreign meddling.
—Economist.

LORD W. 31. GODOLPIIIN OSBORNE.
In the Cambridge Insolvent Court on Thursday,
before Mr. John Collyer, judge, Lord William
Godolphin Osborne, described as a son of the Duke

of Leeds, and of several addresses in England and
Belgium, but last of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire,
of no profession or business, came up for his first
examination.

The insolvent's schedule extended between
December, 1852, and May, 1860. His total debts

now amount to £1,056 68:11d., of which he asserted
he had received no consideration for £352 2s. The
sum of £4l was twice, entered. The debts for
which consideration was admitted were £673

4s. 11d. He had received £473 in gifts from his
father, and £539 3s. 10d. in legacies, making the
amount to be accounted for £1,685 ss. 9d. The
expenditure included such items as interest on
loans and discount, £BO ; dogs and keep, £5O ;
Lambert, on account of loans, £6O ; hotel, travel-
ling, and personal expenses, £450 ; ditto, of self
and wife, £lOO ; but with all there was a defi-
ciency of £538 18s. The list of creditors included
tailors, to the amount of £320 13s. 9d. ; tobacco-
nists, £6O; Cohen (money lent and interest), £248
lls. 6d. ; Lambert, livery stable keeper, £l3l 14s.
7111., being £79 10s. 10d. for money borro wed, and
the balanee for horsehire and refreshments ; college
tutor, £79 10s., &c. The insolvency was attributed
to insolvent's not being allowed by his father such
an income as he had been led to anticipate, and to
his being sued by his Cambridge creditors.
Dr. Leapingwell supported the insolvent ; Mr.
Naylor opposed for Cohen; and Mr. Basham, jun.,
1 clothier, of Cambridge, in person. Owing to insol-
. rent's notoriety in Cambridge the court was densely
L crowded.

Mr. Naylor said he opposed under the section
of the Act of Parliament which gave his Honour the
power to punish any insolvent who had been guilty
of fraud or obtaining goods or money under false
pretences. He should show that the insolvent had
so obtained advances of Cohen, that he had ex-
pended the deficiency of £5OO and odd at places
not mentioned in the schedule, that he had
bought three diamond rings, and not stated
where or how he had disposed of them ; that he had
driven certain persons (who, however, might be
respectable) about Newmarket-heath with four
horses ; that he had done all this when he well
knew he was insolvent, and having at that time an
allowance of £l2 a-year only from his father.
Knowing all this the insolvent had contracted
tailors' bills alone at the rate of £lOO a-year, and
altogether had proceeded in the most reckless and
extravagant manner.
The insolvent, being examined, said, in answer
to Mr. Naylor,—l am now 25. I had an allowance
of £l2 a year from my father till I came of age;
since then I have had £lOO a year from the Duke.
The principal debts contracted with Cohen and other
parties who have sued me were contracted in 1855
and 1856. At that time I was living at Gogma-
gog, near Cambridge, the Duke's residence. I put
my hand to a note of hand given to one Bays, an
attorney. I believe in 1856. Mr. Headly, my
present brother-in-law, joined me. The note was
for £2O, but I only received £2 10s., and Mr.
Headly £2 10s. Next heard of the note as
in the hands of Cohen. That was the first time
I had the pleasure of being introduced to him.
(Laughter.) The note was first produced for pay-
ment through Laxton. [lt should here be stated
that both Cohen and Laxton have been discom-
muned by the University for similar dealings with
undergraduates. Cohen is professedly a dealer in
second-hand clothes, and Laxton a dog-fancier.]
Did not pay the money; I hadn't it. I gave a bill
to put off the payment of the other ; the second bill
was for £25 ; gave that to Laxton or Cohen ; the old
bill was returned to me. The next I heard of the
second bill was when it was due three months after.
A similar transaction took place again. Cannot say
what amount the bill was fdr that time. Cannot
say how many bills there were between the first
given to Bays and the last given to Cohen, but
once there were two in one day—one for £lOO, and
one for £3O. That was owing to something about
the stamp. The bills finally given to Cohen
amounted in all to £l9O. I cannot guess how much
money I received in all, but very little. On my
oath it was not £lOO. Laxton was generally
present when I drew those bills ; Cohen was
once or twice. Always looked upon Laxton as
the go-between between Cohen and myself. Lax-
ton is, I think, a dog-fancier. Some of these tran-
sactions took place in 1858 and some in 1859. Wolf
and Dolan (creditors for £270 125.) are tailors, in
Conduit-street, London. I became acquainted with
them soon after I made Laxton's acquaintance,
through their Cambridge agent, a man named Ful-
ler, who was introduced to me by Laxton. I or-
dered, perhaps, five or six suits of them during the
first three months, and perhaps five or six the next
three. Those clothes were supplied to Laxton.
gave the order to Fuller that they should be. I
never saw them. I sometimes received a sovereign
from Laxton for an order for a suit, and sometimes
hal:'-a-sovereign. I had two or three suits of Wolf
and Dolan for my own use, The orders I under-
stood to be in favour of Cohen, and that he
would receive the clothes. I gave a. bill
to Martin, a Cambridge tailor, for clothes ; that
was not for orders given to other persons.
Owe Richard Callaby nothing [Callaby
claimed £4 Os. 6d. for dogs' keep]. Gave him
a dog in payment for the keep of another, Have
paid Cohen nothing back since I returned from
abroad. I used to pay him sometimes £lO, and
sometimes £l5 out of the quarterage I received from
the Duke. I should think I paid him as much as
£BO. All the money I had for the whole of my
expenses was £l9O a-year.
By Mr. Naylor—Asked the Duke for a further
allowance on my marriage, and he refused. The
Duke once said that he expected increased means,
and that he would increase my allowance in the
same proportion as my brothers'. Asked my father
to help me through my difficulties, and he said he
" could not at present." I expected something ef
my father; every son in my position does. My
only prospect of paying was that every son of
a Duke has. Never told any one I should have
£l,OOO •n my marriage. Never had a hamper of
plate, but there was some talk of it. I don't believe
I ever told Cohen I had it. Think it was to Lax-
ton that plate was mentioned. Don't know that
Cohen made three journeys in a gig to Gogmagog
to take away a hamper of plate. Never told Cohen
not to let the butler know any transaction be-
tween him and me about the plate. Am not
aware I ever wrote it. Recollect my brother-in-
law Headly getting into trouble and raising money
on his watch. Am not aware that Cohen paid
money to get him out of his difficulty at my sug-
gestion. Had £Bo's worth of cigars and tobacco
in three years of Messrs. Bacon. Incurred a debt of
£l3O in three years with Lambert, for horse-hire.
I never told Peters, the jeweller, that I had an
allowance of £3OO a year from my father, or
Peters, the tailor, that I had £2OO a year.
Lazarus Cohen, a Jew, one of the opposing cre-
ditors, said, in answer to Mr. Naylor, I will swear
that insolvent has had more than £2OO of me at
various times in sterling money.
illiam, alias " Woolly" Laxton, on entering
the box, said a great many people had been talking
harm about him, but he world make them all

think different before he had done. He then pro-
ceeded in a species of semi-narrative :—The first time
I knew Lord William he and Henry Headley came
on horseback and called me up in the night. I raised
money for him after that. I know his handwriting.
[A number of letters from the insolvent to the
witness were here put in and read. They were all
urgent requests to raise small sums for him, such
as £2 or £2 10s. immediately. To " get the money
of Cohen," to " settle with Multon," hairdresser,
&c.-] All the money I gave Lord William I got
of Cohen. I have seen Lord William and Headly
and two girls altogether in Norfolk-street. They
were all drunk together. Once when there Lord
William asked me if I would buy two suits of
clothes and a top coat. I asked how much for ;
he said, £5 ; and I bought them. He once gave
me a suit of clothes ; he ordered them of Wolf and
Dolan as for his keeper. I got them at the lodge
at Gogmagog. It was on that occasion he said he
had a hamper of silver, and that he had asked his
father to advance money on it. I went and asked
the butler whether he had any silver or no, and the
butler said," I'll give you my word he's got
no more
silver than you have ;" " and" (continued the wit-
ness) " I had not above sixpence in that 'ere
metal." (Laughter.) Dare say I get £3OO or £4OO
of Cohen for him at different times. J;le would
sometimes pay Cohen back £25 a quarter by his
father's check. He used to give me that to take up
a bill of Cohen, but it was paid by Cohen to a gen_
tleman now in court, who had the bills. I was
pressing Lord William to come. to some settlement
with Cohen, and he said. " I've some silver I'll let
lsirn have." I've been in Norfolk-street hundreds of
times; hospitality was carried on well there. There
were men and women there. The breakfasts were
sumptuous ones. Beefsteaks—l call that sumptuous.
The insolvent, in answer to his Honour, said he
was educated at Marlborough School, which he left
in 1851. Since then, up to his marriage, he had re-
sided with his father, doing nothing. Ti 111855 he
had received only a nominal allowance, and had
been treated as a mere schoolboy.
Dr. Leapingwell, in a long and energetic address,
said every allowance must be made for a young
man in the insolvent's position, who had fallen into
the hands of harpies and sharks.
The Judge said the insolvent, knowing be had