The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-18 00:00:00

A Y EVENING, NOVEMBER 18 1656

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)

IN RE POTLE.

This bankrupt, Sophia Anne Poile, had carried on
business as a pawnbroker in Great Suffolk-street, South-
wark, and now come up for her certificate.
Mr. Bagley, instructed by Mr. Rolt, appeared to
oppose, on the ground that the bankrupt had given an
undue preference to her mother, by which all the pro-
perty had been swept off.

Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupt, and after a
brief explanation,
His Honour granted an immediate certificate of the
second class.

IN RE BARNETT.
This bankrupt was described as of Ramsgate, js ?feller,
and this was a meeting for proof of debts and choice of
assignees.

Mr. Philp Bucklersbury appeared for the petitioning
creditor, and assignees were chosen pro forma, as it
was understood that the bankruptcy would be super-
seded on the part of the bankrupt, an arrangement to
that effect being pending.

DEPARTUItE OF THE ISTANBOUL FOR

AUSTRALIA.

The auxiliary screw clipper Istanboul, the pioneer of
the Australian Steam Clipper Company (limited), left the
Victoria Docks, London, on Monday last, at noon pre-
cisely, according to advertised announcement, and imme-
diately steamed down to Gravesend, with a tug a-head
to afford assistance, if necessary, in the narrow parts of
the river, she being 250 feet long. She was a full ship,
both in cargo and passengers, the comp”y,brokers,agents,
and the Duck Company having combined their exertions
to load her in 14 days, so as to enable her to leave at the
hour advertised, keeping faith with, and giving satis-
faction to, shippers and all interested. She arrived at
Gravesend within two hours after leaving the docks, her
engines workirg admirably. This magnificent vessel has
amply fulfilled the expectations of thedirectors as regards
her capacity, she having on board, 1,600 tons of cargo
paying freight, and 690 tons of metal, coal, provisions,
&c., besides her passengers and crew. Her tonnage is
1,470 old measurement, 1,310 gross new measurements
and 1,164 register, after deducting engine-room space ;
her draught of water is 19 feet aft and 18 feet forward.
The speed with which she has been filled is something
remarkable. She arrived from West Hartlepool, where
she was fitted by her builder for her present service, on
the 15th of October; fthe company entertained their
friends at a dejeuner on board on the 27th ; on the fol-
lowing day she commenced loading, which, by the use
of powerful hydraulic cranes, proceeded at the rate of 200
tons per day, and was accomplished, as above stated, in
10 days. She left Plymouth on Saturday, and proceeded
on her voyage, which she is confidently expected to com-
plete in 60 days. The Victoria Docks, upon the manage-
ment of which the speedy loading, by their extraordi-
nary hydraulic cranes, of the Istanboul reflects much
credit, have been so extensively used during the short
time they have been open, that the directors intend ap-
plying to Parliament in the ensuing session for po ever to
enlarge them, for which purpose they have 250 acres
available ; and before long, at the present rate of increase,
there is no doubt every acre will be required. The testi-
mony of all nautical lawn we have conversed with assures
us that the managers of the Liverpool and Birkenhead
Dock Estate would derive many valuable suggestions
from a visit to those dock, and find various points within
that enclosure of the Thames which might be copied with
great profit to the trust and infinite advantage to cap-
tains, shipowners, merchants, and the commercial com-
munity generally, on either bank of the Mersey. We
should hare stated that the medical gentleman who goes
out in charge of the health of the Istanboul's numerous
passengers is Dr. Baylie, whose remarkable letter in the
leading journal lately, signed by him as "ex-Mayor of
Geelong," produced so great a clnfirmation of the merits
of the Panama route as the real course which the postal
traffic between the Antipodes and England will actually
have to pursue, whatever may be the temporary expe-
dients which may be adopted in the meanwhile. The
Istanboul will be followed on the 31st Dec. by the Indo-
mitable, it being the intention of the company to which
these vessels belong to dispatch a ship at intervals of six
weeks. The Indomitable is a new first-class ship, of
1,160 tons register and 1,800 tons burthen, with auxili•
ary engines nominally of 80 horse power, and working
up to 320. She has given great satisfaction in the Go-
vernment service, in which she has recently been en-
gaged, and is as admirably adapted for the Australian
voyage as her sister ship, the Istanboul. The other ves-
sels of this company, in readiness or building, are all of
the same magnificent dimensions and capacity for stow-
age, and their accommodation for 'passengers on the
same scale, as regards the essential points of space, ven-
tilation, and general comfort.—Liverpool Albion,.

DR. BRADY AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

(Front the Midland Counties Gazette.)

In another column will be found an abridged report of
the proceedings of the Leitrim Liberal Club, at the
meeting of that body held in Carrick-on-Shannon on
Wednesday last. The success of the club is now an
established fact. But twoyears established, it has already
accomplished much—has, in truth, secured the indepen-
dence of Leitrim. When, some three years since, we
urged the liberals of Leitrim to organise a county club,
we stated our belief that in no Irish county there existed
better or more available materials for such an organisa-
tion. The result has proved that we well understood the
county. But sanguine as we were, we confess that our
hopes have been more than realised—that our expecta-
tions have been surpassed. In two short years the club
has accomplished that which we knew could be accom-
plished, bull for the accomplishment of which we deemed
that years would be required. The county of Leitrim is
already independent. The conservative power is com-
pletely prostrated. At the next general election two Jibe-
' rals will be returned for Leitrim. This is no idle boast ;
we are warranted in making the assertion. The liberals
are as three to one on the registry.
Having closely watched the parliamentary career of
Dr. Brady, we most cordially concur in the vote of thanks
and confidence passed to him by the club of Leitrim on
Wednesday, and shall deem it a duty to co-operate, to
the utmost of our means and ability, in giving practical
effect to the resolutions of future support. Indeed, to
secure Dr. Brady'a re-election will be a matter of no diffi-
culty—it is already secured. It alone remains to provide
him with an honest and worthy fellow-representative, so
that the votes of John Brady may be no longer neutra-
lised by the hostile votes of a conservative colleague.
This, we have no doubt, the club will take measures to
accomplish.

MARKET NE Day.)

HAY MARKET'S.

SIVITEIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4/ 103 ; clover do.,
3110 s to 5/ 103; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 108 per load
A moderate supply and a fair demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 4/ 12s; clover
do., 3/ 10s to 5/ lOs; and straw, 1/ Gs to 1/ 103 per load.
Trade steady.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4/ 103 ; clover
do., 31 10s to 5: 103; and straw, 1/ 58 to 1/ lOs per load.
Supply moderate, and trade tolerably firm.

MR. THACKERAY S FOURTH LECTURE,

(From the Scotsman.)

Last night (Friday) Mr. Thackeray's concluding
lecture—on the Fourth of the Georges—was de-
livered in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, to an audi-
ence that appeared even greater than those which
had attended the preceding lectures.
The lecturer began with a reference to the vene-
ration with which Lord Eldon preserved a lock of
the Duke of York's hair, and to the unfortunate
accident which befel a greater man than George
the Fourth—Sir Walter Scott—when he went on
board the vessel that brought the King to Scotland
in 1822, and carried off iu his pocket a crystal
goblet from which his Majesty had drunk, break-
ing it, however, by sitting down upon it in the
boat as he was coming ashore—as instancing the
extraordinary reverence that was paid to royalty,
and especially to George the Fourth, even within
the memory of the present generation. Had the
precious crystal been preserved, and were it now
shown to the visitors at Abbotsford, would we not
smile with something like pity to see it ? In Ma-
dame Tussaud's wax- work exhibition the corona-
tion robes of that king are yet to be seen—" Which
of you would now kiss the hem of that trumpery ?"
To make a portrait of him at first seemed a matter
of some difficulty. There is his coat, and his wig,
and his countenance simpering under it. With a
slate and a piece of chalk, said Mr. Thackeray, I
could at this very desk perform a recognisable like-
ness of him. And yet, after reading of him in
scores of volumes, hunting him through old maga-
zines and newspapers, you will find nothing but a
coat and wig, and the mask smiling below it—
nothing but a great simulacrum. His sires and
grandsires were men with individualities ; they had
steady loves and hatreds ; one knew what they
would do undergiven circumstances. Thesailor-king
who succeeded him was a man ; and the Duke of
York, his brother, was a man—a big, burly, jolly,
cursing, courageous man. But this George was but a
bow an a grin ; he was all outside, a tailor's work—
fine cocked hat, nutty-brown wig, coat, huge black
stock, under-waistcoats, more under-waistcoats, and
then nothing—a royal mummy. The lecturer said
he had once thought.it iste4is44od sport to hunt
him down, but he would be ashamed to summon a
full field and then hunt such poor game. There
were more pictures taken of him than of any other
human being—in every variety of uniform and
dress, in every conceivable cocked hat, in dragoon
uniform, in Windsor uniform, in field-marshal's
dress, in a Scotch kilt, with dirk and claymore—
and then he looked more stupendous than ever.
Before his little feet could walk statesmen were
busy kissing them. He was everywhere described
as beautiful, and he had a high spirit when a boy.
Having a difference with his father, he burst into
the royal closet and shouted "Wilkes and
Liberty ! ' He corrected his tutor, Lord Bruce,
who made a false quantity in reading his Greek
lesson • and the tutor took it so to heart that he
resigned his post, obtaining a peerage, however, to
soothe his wounded feelings. Lord Bruce was
made an earl for a blunder in prosody, and Nelson
was made a baron for the victory of the Nile. He
was so extravagant that if he had been a manufac-
turing town, or a populous rural district, or an
army of 5,000 men, he could not have cost more ;
and yet he was a solitary man, who did not toil, or
spin, or fight. Ho spent 10,0001. a year for the
coats on his back ; and the sums given him by the
nation were past counting. He spent an income of
66,0001., 70,0001.,100,0001., 120,0001. a year—the
nation was continually paying debts for him of
180,0001. or 650,0001.—besides granting mysterious
foreign loans, the proceeds of which this man
pocketed. Ho was so lovely to look upon that he
was described as Prince Florizel. Ho and his '
brother King, Louis D'Artois—who subsequently,
driven away by his people, had to seek shelter
in Holyrood—shared between them the title
of " The First Gentleman of Europe." It
was, of course, a point of loyality to ac-
cord the title to George in this country. It
was Walter Scott who was his champion—who
rallied all Scotland to him, laying about him with
his claymore on all his enemies. The House of
Brunswick had no such two dsfeuders as Samuel
Johnson and Walter Scott. The dreadful dulness
of papa's court at Windsor, however, was such as
would have made scapegoats of any princes. But
his brothers, after sowing their wild oats and
spending their youth in riotous living, settled
down into quiet, if not good, men. But throughout
Prince Florizel was the same. He signalised his
entrance into life by an act worthy of him—he in-
vented a new shoe-buckle, an inch long and five
inches broad, which covered almost the whole in-
step, and reached down to the ground on either
side—a sweet invention, lovely and useful as the
prince on whose foot it sparkled. His natural com-
panions were dandies and parasites. French ballet
dances, French cooks, horse jockeys, boxers, china,
jewel, and gimcrack merchants. Fox, and Pitt,
and Burke, and Sheridan wore sometimes his
guests, but what had they in common with their
host of Carlton House ? His opinions on anything
but the best pattern for a waistcoat or the sauce
for a partridge were not worth anything. The
Whig chiefs thought to make use of him, but he
had no feeling to unite him to them or to any
others who took part in the business of the world,
and if he broke the hollow compaA that subsisted
with them, who 'shall blame him ? Declining to
take the Leporello part, and flourish a catalogue
of the conquests of this royal Don Juan, and to
tell the names of the favourites to whom, one after
another, the Prince threw his pocket-handkerchief
—what good is there, said Mr. Thackeray, in know-
ing that he actually did marry Miss Fitzherbert
according to thorites of the Roman Catholic Church?
Heartless debauchees have been ever since the world
began, and this one had more than his share of
temptation. All the pleasant devils were enticing
him on—desire, idleness, vanity, and drunkenness.
At his table—for the aroma of the wine at a table
where a great man sits as host seems to brighten the
wit—Scott, with his great and good nature, poured
forth his immense stores of legendary lore, and there
was Grattan with his wondrous eloquence and
feeling, Tom Moore, too, perched on it for a while,
flying away in a twitter of indignation afterwards,
and attacking the Prince with beak and claws.
Kindness to a housemaid, generosity to a groom,
were the sum of all the good stories that were told
about him ; they were mean and trivial, and they
characterised him. H was fond and familiar with
his friends ono day, and passed them without re-
cognition the next ; on Monday. Prince Flerizel
fondled and kissed poor Perdita, and ou Tuesday
he did not know her. Beau Brommell, his superior
in his own line, ho treated with cruel neglect, after
cheating him out of a snuff-box. He had worn
uniforms so much—had sat so often in all kinds of
cocked hats and military coats to have his portrait
taken—that he came to believe he Lad been a sol-
dier, and had actually led a tremendous charge of
the German Legion at Waterloo.
Mr. Thackeray next sketched the greatly differ-
ent manners of fifty years ago—the drinking, box-
ing, swearing, and gambling habits of the last
generation—when gentlemen at dinner regularly
fell under the table—when Byron and his com-
panions led their wild life at Newstead Abbey,
drinking till morning in monks' dresses, breakfast-
ing at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and
then boxing, or fencing, or firing pistols at a mark
in the hall, or worrying the wolf. Lord Eldon, as
John Scott, a young barrister on the Northern
Circuit, who loved port wine, but loved also his
business, his duty and his fees, was called up as
evidence against the leading counsel, who lost
causes from sticking to the dinner table, and being
too drunk to consult. Poor Bozzy, who absurdly
would go to the Northern Circuit, was exposed
lying drunk in the streets of Lancaster unable to
move. A story was related of the Prince Regent
and his brothers the Dukes of York and Clarence,
getting "Jockey of Norfolk" over to the Pavilion at
Brighton to dinner in order to carry out a plan they
had laid for making him drunk, and how, after
the veteran toper had overthrown many of those
who were in the plot against him, he was
finished by the Prince proposing a bumper of
brandy ; and when the old grey-haired man, drunk
as he was, seeing through thescheme, and proposies-
to leave, getting his postilions to drive him round
and round the park, and finally landing him in bed
at the Pavilion. These were the manners of the
times, and this was the First Gentleman of Europe.
Mr. Thackeray said he believed, however, that he
was innocent in the affair about his horse Escape,
which created so much talk. Pierce Esran then
narrated in most amusing style the battles of Moly-
neux and Cribb—Byron swore in his letters to John
Murray, and corresponded with Mr. Julin Jackson,
pugilist—and Blackwood raised his voice to gather
the nation round King and Ring, declaring that
to extinguish in man a love of pugilism would be
to reduce him to the level of the brutes, and pro-
claiming, Let pugilism flourish and Radicalism
decay." Play, too, which ruined so many of the
men of fashion, was now a deposed goddess, her
worshippers bankrupt, and her table in rags.
Driving was the only thing in which the Prince
distinguished himielf, and that, too, had fallen
into decay.
George had not even the constitutional bravery
of his predecessors. The Second George manfully
fired his pistols in the enemy's face at Dettingen,
and the Third withstood all the statesmen of his
time on the India Bill and the Roman Catholic
Disabilities, declaring that if he were beaten. i
would retire to Hanoer rather than reioluuee he
his
Kingly prerogative. And ho he would have
done
it too ! But bravery, how could George the
i Fourth
have it, who had lived his life in wanton idleness,
I who had never strung up his nerves to any work