The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

THE HUG.

The following letter on the subject of hugging
has been forwarded to us, and so entirely accords
with our own views that we publish it without
hesitation. We intend shortly to call a meeting
of the committee of the P.B.A. on the subject. This
would have been done before, but so completely has
the system been disused for many years in the
P.R. that it never entered our heads. The art
of boxing was introduced for the purpose of in-
culating fair play, and improving the science of
self-defence, neither of which objects is gained by
the practice in question:—
"Mr. Editor,—It has o:',;en been to me (and I should
think to many others) a matter of the very greatest surprise
that this most unmanly custom should not have been long
ago expelled by the rules from the art of self-defence.. A
very determined stand has been made (and justly so, against
the contemptible trick of dropping without a blow, to avoid,
but against this, to my mind, more contemptible trick I
have never seen a line written, while I am sure it is deserv-
ing of much greater reprobation—for, be it carefully ob-
served, that, while in the one case a man does but unfairly
avoid the punishment he would otherwise receive, he in the
other case not only avoids (unfairly I think) the punish-
ment from his antagonist, but, at the same moment, while
his antagonist is powerless for all pu'-poses of pugilism, ad-
ministers to him the severest possible castigation. We
deem it disgraceful to strike a prostrate man, but wa may
hold him, as in a vice, while we beat him—this seems a per-
fect anomaly. That pugilists themselves think i con-
temptible is evident from the face that they often refrain
from taking this advantage when in their power. Thus in
the fight (whether first or second, I forget', between Don-
nelly and Jones of Portsmouth, Donnelly seized Jones
round the neck, and for a moment or two hold him power-
less on the ropes, merely to show the spectators, as though
sayinF," You see, here he is ;" then, without attempting
to striking the powerless man, released him, and walked
quietly to his corner, amidst the most enthusiastic and
deafening plaudits of the entire assembly. How such a
practice should have so long been tolerated, I; for one, can-
not conceive. We should not have tolerated it at school in
my boys' days. Let it be distinctly understood, I cannot
blame Heenan in this ; he fought fairly within the rules of
the Ring, and had he wen, the friends of Sayers had fairly
lost their money ; but I could not (and surely many must
feel like n,e) by any possibility have felt that our Champion
had betel by such means fairly beaten oa his merits.—l
am, sir, yours &c., Suust CUIQUE.

Bills on St. Petersburg were in request yes-
day at higher rates, and reports are again current of new
negotiations for a Russian loan.
Premature Greyness, Weak or Falling Taft, Neuralgia,
Nervous Headache, Rheumatism, Stiff Joints, &c., are reme-
died with ease andsertainty by HERRING'S Patent Magnetic
Brushes and Combs. Their use is an absolute luxury. His
newly-invented Teazle Brushes for Colth, Velvet, &c,. are
admirable—they not only cleanse, but preserve the fabric in
a remarkable manner. The Manufactory is 32; Baaingtan-
at. The public are cautioned agfti.Ao couuterieits,—ADVT.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
PARIS, Arun, 19, 6 P.M.
The morning papers (including the Moniteur)
contain the following C0112711211q2(C :
An anonymous pamphlet, entitled " La Coali-
tion," has been for two days past the pretext for
.Bourse manoeuvres, and for efforts to keep up dis-
quictUde in the public mind. The existing laws
do not give to the Government the right of arrest-
ing this sort of publications unless they contain a
specific offence ; but Bourse manoeuvres, with the
object of turning them to account by disquieting
public opinion, are provided against and punished
by the penal code. The Minister of the Interior
has represented to the Minister of Justice those
which have taken place on the occasion of the pam-
phlet La Coalition,' and judicial proceedings are
about to be taken on the subject.
The Minister of the Interior is in this instance,
I think, unusually scrupulous and severe. The
pamphlet in question has been talked about more or
less for the last day or two ; but clearly there is
found in it nothing illegal or reprehensible—that
is, displeasing to the Government, or it would have
been prosecuted, like Ar. de Montalembert's pam-
phlet or Bishop Dupanloup's letter. What does the
Minister mean by " Bourse manoeuvres !" When
people saw a pamphlet issue from the press withthe
serious title of "La Coalition," and from the pub-
lisher of " La Pape et le Congres," they of coarse
bought and sold at the Bourse, played for the fall
or the rise, and took every advantage of the cir-
cumstance, just as they did when the famous pam-
phlets "Napoleon 111. et l'Angleterre," " Le Pape
et le Congress," " Napoleon 111. et l'ltalie," not to
speak of those ball cartridges, the Colonels' ad-
dresses, startled the public ; or when, only a few
days back, the Patrie—which, in spite of private
assertions to the contrary, and in the absence of all
public denial, is still believed by its readers to be
directed in its politics at the Home-office—charged
the English Government with promoting Carlist
insurrections in Spain and revolutionary ones in
Sicily. In spite of Ministerial Puritanism, stock-
jobbers in high and low places will speculate on
the ignorance, the credulity, or the fears of
the public. Long before war was declared against
Austria there were people who persisted in stating
that it would come ; nor was the panic allayed by
the formal declaration, emanating from high au-
thority, that it was totally without cause, and that
the Imperial Government had no intention of dis-
turbing the peace of Europe. When M. Petitin
wrote his pamphlet in August last on the annexa-
tion of Savoy, and when the public mind had be-
come gradually familiarised with the event, the ap-
prehensions then excited, and turned to account
by operations on the Bourse, were not removed by
the repeated denials of the Imperial Government,
though backed by the equally veracious assertions
of its Italian ally. And when we are now told no
harm is meant by the wrong of which Switzerland
is the object, any more than by the transfer of
Savoy and Nice, it is unreasonable to turn on people
because they are now as doubtful as before, when
they were not mistaken, or against those who try
to make money, as they have ever done, by specu-
lating on the effect of anonymous publications.
When a Government habitually practises anony-
mous pamphleteering, and when certain of its func-
tionaries are believed in public to be intimately
connected with newspapers distinguished, if not for
anything else, at least for the grossness of their
charges against an ally, the Government must take
the consequences.

A Ministerial paper has already declared that La
Coalition was the production of a private person
totally unconnected with official people—in fact,
that it had no official origin whatever.; and, in
spite of the little credit attached to such St.ttements,
I am inclined to the belief that the paper in—ques:
lion has, 'l,), ctooitlent, told something like the truth.
The object of this pamphleteer is to show that coali-
tion against France is impossible—that the coali-
tions which followed the wars of the Republic and
the Empire were the work of "monarchies by
Divine right," and not the combination of peoples.
" What was called the ambition of Napoleon I.
was the pretext ; the restoration in France of the
monarchy of Divine right, and its reconstruction
throughout the Continent, was the object." The
treaties of 1815 can no longer be said to exist, and
they have been torn up by the peoples for their own
advantage.
" People speak, however," says the writer, " of
again uniting the i
nert members of the Holy Alli-
ance, of attaching them well or ill together, and
animating them with galvanic life. England, which
instigated the first coalition, is accused of wishing
to foment a second. A speech delivered by Lord J.
Russell in the British Parliament caused a suspi-
cion that England wished to arm Europe against
us. It would be strange that she should wish to
do so—impossible that she could succeed. There is
no reason why she should wish it, and she is entirely
deficient in means. The English have been our
allies for the last seven years, and we do not think
that they have to complain of being so. We have
not, perhaps, reaped all the advantages from this
alliance and all the civilities we had a right to ex-
pect, but England at least has gained all she pro-
mised herself. It would not be generous to reproach
England with all the little services we have ren-
dered her, but we may well, in the present state of
our relations, and in order to clear up the situation,
remind her that our alliance on the fields of battle
of the Crimea secured to her a victory which she
could not have obtained alone, and of which the
results were more useful to her than to us. Our
good friendship suffered her to establish herself in
the island of Perim in contempt of treaties, and
solely not to compromise our cordial understand-
standing. We have gone to China with the Eng-
lish to fight for commercial interests which affect
us but little. It is to the Anglo-French alliance
that must be attributed that treaty of commerce so
useful to the two nations, but particularly useful to
British commerce. In fine, when enumerating the
difficulties and misfortunes which our friendship
has spared her, England may calculate the number
of our services. The Government of the Emperor
spared no pains to maintain these good relations—
spared nothing which was compatible with the
honour of France. He answered with the silence of
contempt the invectives of the London journals,
and, after the odious attempt of the 14th January,
when the Parliament rejected the bill on the re-
fugees, he repressed his dissatisfaction, and, far
from declaring that unfriendly proceeding to have
altered the good understanding between the two
countries, he carried his zeal for the affiance so far
as to disavow the military manifestations inserted
in the Monitsur. Nevertheless, England, where
reasons of State prevail over and moderate the
emotions of gratitude, might well forget all the
advantages she acquired by her affiance with us.
The day on which, for the first time, France claims,
in exchange for the sacrifices she has made, a
slight material advantage, which is especially a
measure of indispensable precaution, England may
speak of rupture, and may seek for allies in Europe
against us. This ingratitude is enormous ; but,
whatever Prince Schwartzenburg may have said in
speaking of Austria, it is sufficiently great to
astonish the world. Well! even on this hypothesis,
England could with difficulty find allies."
The writer then goes on to show that England
cannot get Russia for an ally, for this among other
reasons—that
" An abyss is dug between the two Powers ; that
which serves the interests of the one is hurtful to
those of the other. Both wish to rule in the Black

Sea and in Asia ; they represent in Europe influ
ences the most opposite that it is possible to con.
ceive."

Austria will not be the ally of England; there is
nothing in common between two such Powers—
" between Protestant and liberal England and
Austria, Catholic and subjuct to an absolute
regime;" and the moral support given by England
to the independence of the Italian States has com-
pletely separated both Powers.
• One passage of La Coalition is the• Patrie all
over, and may have been the reason why the public
attributed to it an official origin :
" Have not the sanguinary disorders of Palermo
and Messina been imputed to her (England), leav-
ing it to be understood that she coveted Sicily ?
A,Spanish pretender makes at Valencia a demon-
stration completely' unexpected. On pxaminatlon

The pamphlet concludes thus
Let nations form their Holy Alliance ! It will
be done, and nothing on earth can prevent it from
accomplishing its object. There are irresistible
tendencies which are precipitating Europe towards
a new organisation ; the wars which now break out
proceed from an attempt to resist these tendencies.
But it must be remarked that the triumph rests
everywhere with the cause of the people, of which
we have just seen a remarkable example in Italy.
That which consoles us and makes us glad is to see
Imperial France take the lead in this noble move-
ment, of which the phases and events will form the
history of the second half of the 19th century.
That part belongs of right to France and to the
Empire ; to France, because she first supported the
rights of the people alone against all, and because
she succumbed gloriously in that struggle in 1814 ;
to the Empire, because the French Empire is the
only monarchy now existing which has sprung
from the national will, and which truly represents
it. We repeat in conclusion that neither France
nor the Empire has anything to fear from monar-
chical coalitions. The people are with them."
A Paris letter, in the Nord, says :—" Mgr. Sac-
coni, the Papal Nuncio, has, it is said, had a long
conversation with the Emperor, on the subjects of
the Bull of excommunication, of General de Lameii-
ciere, of the events iu Sicily, and of the projects of
France in the event of insurrectionffy moi'emcnts
breaking out in the other provinces of the Holy
Sce. The Pope thinks only of increasing his mili-
tary forces, and is about to negotiate for that pur-
pose a loan of 50 millions, to be raised by public
subscription, as already stated, in the Roman Catho-
lic States of Europe. It is not very probable that
the offer of the ex-Duke of Modena to send his 3,000
troops will be accepted by the Pope' at least in the
form in which it has been made, for Pius IX. would
fear to precipitate a conflict with the King of Sar-
dinia, who would not fail to protest against the
incorporation of the troops of the ex-Duke in the
Pontifical army. The Count de Bourbon-Chalus,
one of the principal members of the French aristc-
cracy, commands the corps of volunteers, under the
orders of General de Lamoriciere."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(April 20.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice
Erle, and Justices Willes, Byles, and Keating.)
LANE V. PEAESON.---A. SQUABBLE IN A PUBLIC-

HOUSE.
The plaintiff kept the Nell Gwynne, at Chelsea,
having taken that house of the defendant. On the
night of the 16th January last the defendant went
into the parlour of the plaintiff's house, and after
abusing a person named Smith, so as to provoke
the plaintiff's interference, turned round upon the
plaintiff and accused him of having given false evi-
dence in a witness-box, and alleged that the motive
for his doing so was bribery. After remonstrance
the defendant persisted in what he had said, and
added, " I can prove it,,so help me God." A law-
yer's letter was sent demanding a written apology,
but no answer being given the present action was
brought—not for damages, but to vindicate the
plaintiff's character ; and the only plea was not
guilty.
Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Griffiths appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Hawkins for the defendant.
The plaintiff was called to prove his case, and
11 fr. Smith was also sworn, and from his evidence
it appeared that on a previous night he had sung at
the Nell G wynne a song called " Toby Brad, or
Funking the Cobbler." (Loud laughter.) At this
time he did not know that the defendant had ever
had anything to do with leather, though it after-
wards appeared that he had been a cobbler or some-
thing of that sort.
Mr. Hawkins asked the witness to let him hear
the first few lines of the song.
Witness—You do not mean me to sing it, I sup-
pose ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins-oh, no, repeat it.

Witness-
-64 There was once a cobbler, by name Toby Brad,
Tho' he lived in his stall, he did not live bad.
With his fol de rol."—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. liawkins—Well, go on.
Witness-
4, Now the leather was tough, and the awl would not pierce,
Which made Toby Brad look most devil;sh fierce."

(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins—" With his fol de rol." (Laughter.)
Witness did not think that there was any allu-
sion in the song to a cobbler beating his wife, nor
that this had made the defendant angry. Witness, in
fact, did not recollect the song, and when he sung
it he had his memory refreshed by a manuscript.
Mr. Hawkins addressed the jury in mitigation of
damages, saying that there was no imputation at
all which could be made upon the plaintiff; and, in
fact, the words had been idly spoken in a moment
of irritation, without any serious meaning being
attached to them.
Mr. Justice Williams told the jury that it was
their business to say what the amount of damages
was.
Verdict for the plaintiff for £5.

It transpired yesterday afternoon that the prin-
cipal cashier of the Union Bank of London has been charged
as a defaulter to a considerable amount. He has been in
the establishment 21 years, and has held his present post
for five years, throughout the greater part of which latter
period his misappropriations are believed to have been car-
ried on.— Times,

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN'S WIFE AT TIPTON.
—A most distressing case of suicide has just occurred at
Tipton, in South Staffordshire. The unfortunate victim of
self-destruction was the wife of the Rev. E. H. A. Gwynne,
M.A., incumbent of Tipton, and chaplain to a division of
the Staffordshire Rifle Corps. At the inquest it appeared
that deceased, on Monday last, sent for an ounce of essen-
tial oil of bitter almonds; on Tuesday morning she was
taken very ill, and before medical assistance could be pro-
cured she expired. A bottle which had contained the oil of
almonds was found, and the mouth -of the deceased smelt
strongly of the poison. A bottle which had contained lau-
danum was also found empty. The husband of deceased,
and other wit-r_esr, :_taf,-] that she frequently
excessive stimulants, and at such times she often threatened
to destroy herself. Mr. Underhill, surgeon, stated that the
deceased had been under his care several times whilst af-
fected. by the use of stimulants ; and he believed that death
resulted from taking the oil of bitter almonds. •