The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-22 00:00:00

22, TSSB.

7.—(This Day.)

(Before the Master rf the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)
IN RE DEPOSIT, &c., ASSURANCE COMPANY—JUDGMENT.
His Honour the Master of the Rolls, in delivering

judgment, said that the question here was whether Mr.
flare should be placed on the list of contributors for the
purpose of winding-up this company. He had executed
the deed of settlement, and was prima facie a contri-
butor of .the company; but he alleges that he was induced
to do so by misrepresentation, and therefore not liable.
If the misrepresentation had been by a private individual
member of the company, it would not avail him, as was
found in the case of Bell, vol. 22 of Bevon ; but he
alleges that the misrepresentation was made by the com-
pany themselves in their report of the state of the com-
pany's business. In their report of March 31, 1854, it is
stated that there are about 7,8171. is. lid. more than
the debts for the purpose of carrying on the company,
whereas the company appeared to be in a state of insol-
vency. This report was calculated to mislead and in-
duce Mr. Hare to become a shareholder of the company,
and therefore the official assLinee is not entitled to place
him on the list of contributories as a shareholder of this
company.
Costs, as between solicitor and client, to be paid out
of the common fund.

ifrviL- AND

rNTE GLIGENCE.

Yesterday a party of invalid troops, to the num-
ber of 52 non-commissioned officers and men of the

Ist Royals, 14th, 21st Fusiliers, 28th, 316 t, and
57th Regiments, left St. Mary's Barracks, Chat-
ham, and proceeded to Fort Pitt Hospital, where

they were medically inspected by Dr. J. R. Taylor,
C. 8., and the medical staff at that establishment.
At the conclusion of the inspection only a few men
were declared unfit for military duty, and the re-
mainder will be sent to rejoin their respective
depots.

The 30th (Capt. W. H. Noble's) Company of
Royal Engineers will shortly leave Chatham gar-
rison and proceed to Shorncliffe.
It is probable the 22d Foot at present at Shef-
field, may return to Portsmouth to garrison that
fortress.

The notification which appeared in our military
and naval column of Thursday last, on the subject
of a letter addressed to us by a gunner of the Royal
Artillery at Woolwich, in which complaint was
made of the inconvenience suffered by himself and
comrades in consequence of their being furnished
with but one delivery of post letters per day, dsc.,
was immediately responded to by Gen. Williams.
The garrison orders of that evening contained a
clause enforcing rigorous attention on the part of
quartermaster-sergeants, in order that four deli-
veries be henceforth strictly and punctually at-
tended to throughout the garrison.
Her Majesty's steam troopships Vulcan and Ur-
gent, Commanders Seccombe and Macdonald, are
under orders to embark troops again at Ports-

mouth. They only arrived from- the Mediterranean
last Saturday and Sunday, and are again ready for
sea, the Urgent first. She will embark this day or
Monday 11 officers, 344 men, one officer's wife and
three
_children, 17 soldiers' wives and nine chil-
dren, of the second battalion of the 7th Fusiliers ;
also a company of Royal Artillery for Gibraltar.
Lieutenants Harness, James, and Morland, of the
6th Foot, who were left behind when that regiment
sailed in the City of Manchester, are ordered pas-
sage in the Urgent. The Vulcan will embark on
Monday 21 officers, 523 men, one officer's wife, 38
soldieri-wives,. and 30 children of the second bat-
talion of the 7th, forming the right wing. The
troops will arrive in garrison at Portsmouth from
Aldershot this day.
The following are the latest movements at Ports-
mouth :—The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain
Eyres, C. 8., is being painted. The Flying Fish,
6-gun screw despatch vessel,. was taken to Stokes-
bay yesterday to try her engines, &c., after an ex-
tensive docking. The Britannia, 120, sailing three-
decker, is ordered to be fitted out as a training ship
for young officers who have passed the College exa-
mination, in lieu of the Illustrious, 72, Captain R.
Harris. On Monday her Majesty's ships are or-
dered to " dress," and Royal salutes are to be fired
in honour of her Majesty's birthday, and on Tues-
day the like ceremony is to be repeated in honour
of the birthday of the Princess Helena, with the
exception that the "dressing ships" will be partial.
The Victory, 104, Capt. G. H.. Seymour, C. 8.,
flag of Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.8.,
G. C. H., is now in a condition to receive visitors,
after her lengthened and thorough refit. The paint
is all dry, and the ship is in the very best possible
condition, not only for the inspection of the
stranger or excursionist who wants to see the Vic-
tory because Nelson fought and died aboard of her,
but for the officer or man in the navy who can ap-
preciate what a ship ought to be that carries the
national ensign. Her decks and everything else,
from the kelson to the mastheads, are in admirable
order. She not only presents the attractions of a
show ship but the appearance of a man-of-war in
good condition.
A commission, appointed by the Admiralty, is
ordered to commence sitting on Monday at the
Royal Clarence-yard to consider the present dress
of the seamen of the fleet, with the view to the
adoption of a universal style and improved mate-
rial. This Clothing Commission will consist of Cap-
tain Dacres, C. 8., Superintendent of the Royal
Naval Hospital at Hasler and Royal Clarence Vic-
tualling-yard ; Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, of her Majesty's ship
Victory ; Captain Li rd F. H. Kerr, of her Ma
jesty's ship Marlborough, 131 ; and Capt. Robert
Harris, of her Majesty's ship Illustrious.
The Atlas, 91, one of the new line-of-battle
screw steamers ordered to be built at Chatham
dockyard, has been commenced on the slip from
which the Renown, 91, screw steamer, was
launched.
yesterday preparations were commenced at No.
I. slip in Chatham dockyard for laying down the
new screw corvette Orpheus, 22, one of the addi-
tional war steamers ordered to be constructed at
Chatham.
The Charles yesterday commenced shipping war
stores from Woolwich for Halifax, and the Early
Morn for Port Natal.
Captain John Sanderson, R.N., yesterday took
up his commission and hoisted his pennant on
bo ird her Majesty's screw steamship Archer, in
dock at Woolwich preparing for the South African
station.
The freight ship Osbert, taken up for the con-
veyance of war stores for Barbadoes, is under or-
ders to sail to-day from Woolwich.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
William B. Fegen, surgeon, to the Archer ; S.
M. Saxby, acting naval instructor, to the Cressy ;
James B. Moorman, paymaster, to the Agamem-
non ; J. H. Shirreff, assistant-paymaster, to the
Madagascar ; and Alfred G. Montagu, assistant,
to the Archer.

THE LATE GEN. HAVELOCK'S GRAVE.

( From the Edinburgh Witness. )

We have seen a letter written by a British officer,
stationed at Alumbagh, which was recovered from
the wreck of the Ave, and from which we aro al-
lowed to extract the following sentences, referring,
among other things, to the grave of Sir Henry
Havelock. It is the only reference which we re-
member to have seen to the hero's earthly resting-
place, and exhibits the enthusiastic regard felt to-
wards him by his officers. "I am now in Alumbagh
(the officer says), and a most uncomfortable place
it is, with about 200 round shot poured into it
every day. We live in a large salcon,• which
forms the upper storey of the palace. On each
side of it is a large corridor or verandah,
quite open on the outside and communicating by
a series of open arches with the saloon. Through
these arches the round shot sometimes sweep,
for the enemy's batteries play on either flank
of the palace, and the interval of wall between
each arch is so unsubst intial as hardly to form
any defence when struck by a shot. The saloon is
ample and lofty, but full of piercing draughts, as you
can easily fancy, and miserably cold, owing to its
elevation, and that in spite of a roaring wood fire
maintained in a fire-place at each end'of the halls
The ceiling is very lofty, and profusely decorated
with graceful patches of Eastern landscape,
painted in no contemptible style of art. Eacti
arch is furnished, according to the original
design, with glazed folding doors, but these have
nearly all been smashed either accidentally or by
round shot. 'The door opposite which lam
sitting has its under part carried away by a shot.
This happened on the day when our troops
first entered the- place. A wearied soldier threw
himself down to rest, with his head against
the door. In an instant lie was asleep ; and lrtm
that sleep he never awoke, for a round shot car-
ried off his head and shoulders. Every inch of the
hall is at the mercy of the enemy's batteries. None
of us dare venture for an instant into the com-
pound, so fast and furious do the shot fly about it.
General Havelock's grave is in the compound—a
narrow strip of ground, with a scathed and withered
tree to mark the not. Truly, there is an end of
all things. Little did we think that, during that
victorious and monarch-like career of his from
Allahabad to Lucknow, lie was marching only to
lay his mortal frame in that narrow strip of ground.
But it is not to form his final resting-place. At
the expense of the officers whom he led so well,
the honoured remains are at once to be sent home
to England, there to mingle, I doubt not, with
the dust of h
gave
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perfectly unanimous,
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need not say, is
and I regard it as a distiuguished privilege to con-
tribute to such an act. If ever I return to Ene-
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ill be
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eHd a vbeyl o cmk ,e iwniWthes
common. feelings."

DEATH OF THE EARL OF It ANFURLT.—We regret to
announce the death of the Earl of Ranfurly, who ex.
pired on We Inesday night at Dungannon Park, his seat
in the county Tyron©, after a short ill es. 4. The earl
only succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father,
the second earl, on the 21st of last March.
It is unlerstood that Mr. Weguelin, M.P., who was
recently Governor of the B -nk of England, is about to
join the banking house of Messrs. Robarts and Co.
The Great Southern of India Rad way have notified
that a guarautee of 5 per cent. has been conceded by the
India Company on their subscribed c,pital of 1,000,0001.
LIMERICK ELEOTION.—After the retirement of Mr.
Bar, yesterday, Mr. Spaight was elected without further
oppo,ition.

_ .
BETTING HOUSES. —At the IlLriborough-stnet
P. lice court, yesterday, Tbotnas Senn was fined 101. for
keepicg a betting-house in Pheeaix-toreet, St. Giles's.
Toe Earl of Shaftesbury has written a letter to the
Times stating tbat he was not present at the Sunday
meeting at Cambridge House.

One and Twenty. By the author of " Wild
flower," " The House of Elmore," .3/c. 3 vols.
Hurst and Blackett.
This book cannot fail to furnish entertainment.
It relates the fortunes of several young men who
start in life about the same time, but who meet
with very different fates on the chequered road.
The hero, Philip Farley, is rather a- peculiar cha-
racter ; he is more collected and reserved than is
usual at his age, but that is in a great measure to
be attributed to his early initiation into the sad
mysteries of existence. The scenes of want, and
penury, in which his childhood passed were never
effaced from the tablets of his mind ; the sight of,
his pale father's haggard face, struggling to keep
up appearances in his wretched shop, and decaying
business, lingered in his memory, while time and
toil worked wonders, and transformed the wander-
ing boy into a monied man. The most striking
characters in the story are John Tregancy, and his
sister Rhoda, who are very peculiar in disposition
and violent in their tempers. Unfortunately f^,*
his peace of mind Philip Farley married Rhoda.
He saw her attachment to himself, and desired the
advantages that would accrue to himself from the
union. He intended to do his duty by his wife,
but the events of his domestic life proved the
fallacy of building its fabric on an unsound
foundation. Rhoda was jealous by nature,
and possessed of ungovernable passions ; she
discovered that her husband had previously been
attached to his cousin, Ellen Barchard, and not to
herself. Her brother John was as violent, but more
ungovernable than herself, and hating his brother-
in-law, he devised endless schemes, which bad for
aim and object to subvert his plans and mar his
happiness. He deceived his sister by false stories, ,
which she, misled by passion and blinded by preju-
dice, implicitly believed, and the result was painful
in the extreme; Rhoda lost her reason and was re-
moved from her home; John, determined to satiate
his- thirst for vengeance, continued to set fire to
the mills of Philip Farley, and, thus destroyed by
one minute's ungovernable fury and reckless rage
the property whose profits promised competence
for life. In the days of prosperity Philip appeared
rather to disadvantage, the cares of his youth had
brought the caution of middle life, to extinguish. •
the freshness of the dawn of existence, and substi-
tute for its generous impulses, the cold calculation
of a bard and censorious world. In the days of ad-
versity it was otherwise ; he then rose to meet, the
emergency with the spirit of a man of courage and
constancy. The first act of his new course was to
take what he called revee,ge on his enemy. This
was of the class of injuries which consists in heap- ,
ing coals of fire on the head of the offender.
He tracked his enemy to his hiding-place,
and then, when 1 regancy exclaimed, "Bring on
your men to seize me," Philip replied that his ven..
geance was to let him escape, even the stern man
was moved by this conduct, and the two men, so
singularly situated, parted never again to meet in
this world ; but they parted in something of the,
spirit which alone can enable enemies on earth to
meet hereafter, where contentions are over, and
the language of strife shall be heard no more.'
With all his mistakes, there is much to admire in
Philip Farley, and therefore it is satisfactory to find'
at last that he is more fortunate. The passages,
which refer to the brothers Esden are amusing, and;
are narrated in an easy, natural manner. The love
affair between Frank Esden and Annie Tackeridge:
is certainly unfortunate enough to satisfy the most.
romantic sentimentalist ; yet the conduct of Mrs.
Tackeridge makes everything in which she is con-
cerned appear ludicrous and strange. William .
Barchard, Philip's uncle, is a strong character, and,
he is well delineated. The struggle for good or,
evil, which disturbed his mind during the last mo-
mentous crisis of his life, is very powerfully ae-
scribed, and his sudden death, which occurred so
shortly afterwards, is divested of its horrors by the
rifle ;lion that he died at his post like a brave man,,
icontending for the right. Altogether, this work
equals, if it does not in some parts excel, its preded-
cessors.

Poets and Poetry of Germany. By Madame Da:,
vesies de Paules, translator of "Egmont."
,yols. Chapman and Hall.
The subject of those volumes is rather an ambi-
tious one, and would seem, at first sight, to deraanu;
an author of unusual abilities, as well as one
thoroughly acquainted with the extensive literature
of Germany, and distinguished for clearness #01:
judgment and critical perception. It is not a light
task to follow the rise and advancement of a nationo
literature, to examine how it has been affected bi
the leading passions of the age, and animated b
its pervading spirit—whether chivalry, philoscipbYt
controversy, or intellectual development--to trace
how it has, in its turn, reacted upon the mind Oe
each generation—how the national idiesyncrao
has stamped itself upon its verse, and how the
language has refused to adapt itself to peculiar
forms of rhythm—the prevailing weakness or vine°
that have been its drawbacks, and the special vi"
rues that have embalmed it. All this analysed ,
its fullest degree would demand the powers of the
philosopher, the enthusiast, the critie, and the his:
torian. Taking the other branch of the subject'l
it is scarcely less alarming. Biography is 14.:
all times confessedly a difficult task, and ,
memoir of a poet is perhaps the most ant
cult of all. It is not easy to separate the
author from his work, to make full allowanl
for the impassioned and sensitive nature—withal
too readily pardoning the faults and vices too oft°
present with it. The story of poet's life is gent
rally a sad one, and it is sometimes scarcely poste
Bible in pitying the results of his own raslinrso
or want of common prudence, to remembers :1..,i
was their cause. The ready sympathy and ":
judgment demanded for this task are not oft 1,
united in the same individual, and few of the f 0
lowers of Apollo have been faithfully pourtrarde;
The writer of the work before us, however, dent
their pretensions to bang a complete history of tb
poets and poetry of Germany, which, indeed, the,
could scarcely be when the illustrious names °a,
Goethe and Schiller are wanting in their page,''
She has sought to trace the advance of Gerfl
poetry from the very earliest records, and she cot
mences with the incantations to the deities of tu:.
Edda and the legends of Cobolds and gnomes• ffri.tle'
ther on we come to the celebrated lays of
drun" and " The Niebelungen Treasure," which
the authoress has herself adapted to English reo..
ders. It is curious that in these early German lad.!,
and legends the real and practical were quite as Prio
minent as the ideal and mystical are in their lath
productions. One of the most remarkable figurbo
in these early ages is the nun Hroswith, 'W.OO
wrote several dramatic pieces for the representaq
of the sisters of the convent. Among the crow of
names filling these earlier times, we meet ferf ,0
any extended reputation till we come
Ulrich von Hutten, the poet of the Refortt'
tion, whose romantic story and singum.
vicissitudes are familiar to many. Hans Ssn
"the cobbler bard" of Nuremberg, and the Band
of Master Singers, so characteristic of the nation;
fill up the dreary space when the poetic' -a". 0
seemed dormant in the fatherland. The desolatio
of the Thirty Years' War did not spare the fields_ of
imagination any more than the pleasant meadnewo.
Of Germany. In the next century, many link,
known names appear, among them KloPst°",,e.
Lessing, Wieland, Burger, and others of eminelly,
liwho are
y of
fam the
eof sshcanadelebry
atnhde mczerezi.vidire:
two great writers are, as we have said, omitted frit:o,
the present volumes, as the works of Lewes, (1,,
lyle, and Bulwer appear to the authoress to 10,001"
little to be said. Should her present attempt
received with favour, she promises to give us s'4!„cle
details of their careers, which late years have 11,1'01
public, and to complete her survey of the us,tll7oo
poetry by sketches of the modern school.
9 t 1
accomplished the task she set herself with fin•etojci
and discretion. The lives of the poets she WI. 0.
with kindly feeling, tempered with a sense of tigiee
She paints the sorrows of Schubarth in bi4o4
years' imprisonment, and the remorse that dar's.itisto
the deys of Burger, but she does not exte: the
the unprincipled extravagance of the one, /`tiitiell
heartless sophisms of the other. The difficiilife
that most of them had to contend within earfine ;
afford encouragement to the victims of fo
but it is a singular fact that owing to the ford)
but
system they were all able to procure scauntsfie
instruction. The translations, though not :hotel
first-rate, show taste and ability, and the al P'"00
has evidently bestowed much care and pain )I',l raer
whole work. We trust that her work
with the appreciation and encouragemen. t i"ervs./
carefulness and want of pretension amplY "„ifs
and that she will, at an early opportunit: yy
the promised conclusion.
COOP:pi
THE LATE A TTE3IPTED MURDER IN FO3: 400 A
The man Brown, who stands charged with Stb.r,
lei
to inurdEr a person named Perry was yeste r 00.ftio
ot
before Mr. Tyrwhitt and again remanded. 3?"5.T t,
yet out of danger.
METROPOLITAN BOARD Or WORKEL—The dol.! 'lv
io,hl/
ing of the Metropolitan Board was held yest erd a91,4
Council Chamber—Mr. J. Thwaites in the CloPrepels
board this day proceeded to consider the reporllP, tifs
by Messrs. Bicker, .e
Hawkeley, and Bszalget theca
main drainage of the metropolis, presented b.l ottsog;',
March last. Mr. Leslie moved resolutions vv.; fa, e 1
condemning the report of Messrs. Bidder, ifived,l'
and BazAlgette, The resolutions were neg
the discussion was then adjourned.