The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMPENSATION CLAIMS.

A curious instance of the disparity which exists
between the real and supposed value of premises •
which a railway ecnip • '
any are require-, under their I
which
arli a thenctuatie
d p to take, WAN given by a case
oor 6thWeei
' attention of the high bailiff of
Westminster, attd a Special jury, at the Guildhall,
Westminster, during the whole of yesterday.
A claim was made by Messrs. Neill and Under- ]
"rook under the adviee of Messrs: Toplis and
Roberts, for k 3,302, in respect of their interest in
No. 21, Eccieston-street South, which is required to
lie taken fOrthe pitrposes of the railway. The claim-
ants were dealers in objects of vertu, old china, and
pictures, and had another shop at No. 24 in the
same street, where they carried on a similar bug-
Einem. Their unexpired term in No. 21 was 19
years from Christmas, 1866, at a rent of £BO per
annum, and they had tinderlet a.portion of the pre-
tnises at a rent of £l5 for a term of seven years,
determinable at the end of any year by the tenant.
The claimants denied all knowledge of the in-
tended railway at the time the lease was taken, in
April, 1806, although it appeared that the parlia-
mentary notice IC:18 given in November, 1863, and
stated that as soon as their lease had been granted
they prepared to erect a gallery in the rear of the
house, in order to extend their business premises ;
but when the notice to treat was served in July,
1865, they stopped building the gallery. A letter
WaS put in from the solicitors of the claimants'
landlord, dated April, 1805, and offering to give
them a lease for 42 years at a rent of .eloo; This
the claimants refused, and took • the shorter term at
£BO a year. •
The rent of -No: 24 was stated to he £45 a year,
and it was mentioned that another house in the
Mine street, No. 18, had teen to let for many months
at a rent of £l2O, with a premium of £4OO, without
finding a tenant,
The witneeses for the claimants valued the lease-
' hold interest at £759. They claimed £75 for the
tenancy and £B6 for fixtures, and the remainder of
the claim Was made up by the compenAation which
they asked for the injury to stock by their removal
from No. 21 to No. 24, and for the interruption to
business.
The books were very imperfectly kept, sa much
so that the claimants's own accountant could not
come to conclusions satisfactory to himself as to the
amount of their net profits. - •
Messrs. Neill and Underwood had entered upon

The Rev. Richard Tyacke reports the following
sad occurrence which happened on Wednesday, dur-
ing a fearful gale, to the lifeboat at that place :
" A vessel this morning struck on the Doom Bar,
at the entrance of our harbour. At. once the boat
was manned, and started to her assistance. The
seas, however, were so mountainous that the boat's
oars were quiokly broken, and she was obliged to
drive before the waves without reaching the stranded
vessel. The boat was soon overturned, and the
whole crew thrown into the water, and though the
boat righted quickly, none, from the violence of the
waves, were again able to reach her. The conse-
quences are fearful—eight of the crew only are saved,
and five drowned. The brave Shea, who always
volunteered his services in the case of shipwreck, is
among the latter number. Two of the dead bodies
arc washed on shore—Shea's and Varcoe's ; those of
Truscott, Crannell, and the chief boatman of coast
guard, are still in the water, and nowhere to be seen.
The saved are—Hill (coxswain), French (second
coxswain), Harris, Bate, May, Bennett, Brenton,
and a coast guard man. The crew of the stranded
vessel, with the exception of. one mun, are saved, as
the ebb tide left her almost dry." It may be added
that the lifeboat was the gift to the National Life-
boat Institution of the city of Bristol, and only last
winter performed one of the noblest services a lifeboat
could achieve during a fearful midnight storm in say-
ing the crew of 17 men of the barque Juliet, of
Greenock, who in the abSence of the boat must in-
evitably have perished. Padstow is one of the most
dangerous points on the Cornish coast, and the
gallant Mr. Shea, the chief officer of the coastguard,
who perished in the boat, has been off in this and
the previous lifeboat on every occasion they had been
afloat, and had contributed in the two lifeboats to
the saving of fifty-five lives. The four other brave
men who were also lost never shrank from their
dangerous duties ; and it it to be hoped that, in
conjunction with the National Lifeboat Institution,
the public at large will come forward liberally
to support the families of the unfortunate men who
have thus perished in the performance of one of the
noblest as well as the most perilous duties they
could be called on to render to their fellow crea-
tures. Considering the fearful character of these
lifeboat services--thßt about 6,000 persons go afloat
on all occasions in the boats every year, and that
during the past 14 years the institution has only lost
18 lives—it must be a source of congratulation to
every one that so small a percentage has been sacri-
ficed compared with the noble service done in that
period, and the large number of brave men'engaged
at so much hazard in the work. It may be men-
tioned that the National Lifeboat Institution at its
meeting yesterday voted £2lO in aid of the local
subscription now making for the relief of the fami-
under the superintendence of the Rev. Richard
'yacke, rector of Padstow, and other gentlemen in
he locality.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.

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The annual meeting of the Governors of this hos-
pital took place yesterday afternoon in the board-
room of the institution, Gray's-inn-road—Mr. Jas.

llopgood in the chair. The report of the committee
of management, which was read by the Rev. J. B.
Owen, stated that during the past year the direc-
tors of the Great Northern Railway, in recognition
of the constant services rendered to cases of acci-
dent occurring on their line, have doubled their sub-
scription, now amounting to £5O a year. The sus-
pension of the Agra and Masterman's Bank, an
event which evoked the deepest sympathy of the
committee with their highly respected treasurer, Mr.
E. Masterman, inconvenienced the committee less
than it might have done, as they had only a ba-
lance of i. 153 Bs. 2d. in the bank at the time.
Having regard to the harsh external circumstances
under which this high-class company succumbed,
and mindful of the tong and faithful services of the
late Mr. John Mastermau, and of his son, Mr. Ed-
ward Masterman, successively treasurers of this
hospital, the committee saw no reason whatever
for withdrawing their confidence in the latter gen-
tleman, and, on his proposal to resign his office
of treasurer, solicited him to continue his
valuable :services, with which request Mr. Master-
man complied. Their banking
.account wa
and
s then
removed to the firm of Messrs. Brown, Janson,
Co., from witotn the hospital has been
committee recently
favoured with handsome donation's. The
of
bibles
gratefully acknowledge a liberal grant
from the British and Foreign Bible Sciety, and
several handsome donatiFons. During the past year
the committee hayo to record with unfeigned regret
the decease of one of its oldest members, a constant
otter of the charity, the late Mr.
and generous supporter
George Simpson. The rert, in referring to the
po
death of Dr. William Marsden, the found
any other
shape of memorial which the governors
frinids of the deceased may herea
Lavinfter see t
adopt, a member of the committee Ua7e©~
fit
motst
guarantee £2OO a year for five
generously offered to g
years, on condition of sufficient extra funds being
_ raised to k3upport one additional ward in 9*, haispi-

Catching your own again, as Sam Nicoll called stag-
hunting, will never be a popular amusement with the ma-
jority of sportsmen. The very fact that you need not take
every advantage of the animal you are pursuing, as you
needs must do when you are after a wild animal, deprives
the sport of half its zest. But it is quite an error to sup-
pose that there is no hunting in it; for hounds will stick
to the line of a stag as closely as to that of a fox or a hare
and it depends entirely upon the system that is pursued,
whether it is a sport fit for men, or whether it is as tame as
coursing rabbits with cur dogs in an enclosed paddock. In
addition to the bad name which stag-hunting has acquired,
with good reason, from the practices which we are about
to condemn, there is a vast amount of prejudice against it
from the circumstance of its being the sport of Londoners,
whose vocations preclude 'them from hunting frequently,
and to whom a certain find and a probable gallop are the
great attractions. The principal packs of stag-hounds have
always been to be reached from the metropolis, formerly by
road and now by rail ; and in seniority, as well as in loyalty,
we must first rank thatof her Majesty. Within the last few
masterships the country formerly hunted by those hounds
has been grievously curtailed. The Harrow country, over
which they used to have their best sport, has been, of neces-
sity, given up, and the line of the famous Poll-hill run would
be found to bo intersected with hundreds of wire fences. The
trip to Lyndhurst has been discontinued since the disforest-
big of the Crown lands and the destruction of the red deer
in the Now Forest. Tho want of condition of the doer in
their wild state prevented any great runs over tho forest,
and the deer invariably died soon after being taken; but
these were pleasant gatherings, making a fitting conclusion
to the season, and the discontinuance of them was much
regretted. Time and modern improvements have done
their worst, as far as sport is concerned, for the Queen's
county. The Surrey staghounds, a subscription pack, with
Squire Heathcote at their head, hunt the countrywhere the
late Earl of Derby showed such sport for upwards of 40
years. But here again the face of nature has been sadly
changed. Open fields, over which Jonathan, on Prosper,
used to cheer his hounds, are now covered with villas,
streets, and crescents, and retired spots have become rail-
way junctions. Forest-hill was then rightly named, and
Reigate Station was a deep morass. By the courtesy of
the directors of the Brighton Railway, who carry the
hounds and servants' horses on their line free of charge,
this pack is now enabled to get more frequently "below
hill." This is a country well calculated fur making good
men to hounds, and Messrs. Shaw; Simpson, Metcalf, Gil-
lespie, and others, are quite up to sample. A tale is told,
thd authenticity of which, however, we cannot vouch for,
that in a run with these hounds the huntsman and a gentle-
man got off their horses to take a gate off its hinges, and
in the excitement and hurry of the moment each got upon
his neighbour's horse and rode through the run without
discovering the mistake. When the deer was taken the
huntsman, feeling for his horn, and not finding it, looked
down, and to his intense astonishment his dark brown horse
had become a molly bay. The Great Eastern Railway will
take the sportsman to that first-rate plough country, the
Roothings of Essex, where the staghounds are under the
able management of the Hon. Frederick Petre. The
absence of up-standing fences is favourable to the running
of the deer, but there is a sameness in the country which
detracts from it in the eyes of those who follOw hounds.
Upon the borders of the Vale of Aylesbury is situated the
pretty village of Mentmore, where the staghounds of
Baron Lionel &Rothschild are kennelled. From his youth
up Baron LioneLwas a hound man, and ho spared neither
trouble nor expense to make his pack a perfect one. In
the year 1812 ho purchased at Tattersall's one of the lots
of Mr. Osbaldoston's famous pack; at the price of one
hundred guineas a couple. By a judicious cross with this
blood he had the good fortune to,breed ono of the best
hounds that ever wont out of doors. This was Gunners-
bury, by Mr. Oshaldestou's Falstaff, a son of Furrier, one
of the Cheshire Guilesome. Gunuersbury was a light-
coloured hound of enormous power and substance, and a
driving, forcing hound on a scent. As he crashed through
the doubles he appeared as though lie would tear them to
pieces. Gunnersbury was used freely in the Mentmore
kennel, and his daughter, Dairymaid, through whom the
blood has descended, took very much
.after him both in
looks and style of hunting. The baron bred from all the
most fashionable kennels of the day. Lord Fitzwilliam's
Marmion, Feudal, and Bluecap, Mr. Drake's Duster, Lord
Southampton's Herald, Lord Yarborough's Rallywood,
the Duke of Rutland's Ragland, Gamester, and Ranter,
and other hound sires of high repute helped to make the
pack; but the Bolvoir sort proved to be too mute for stag-
hounds. It was to the Fitzhardinge blood that thebaron's
kennel was the Most indebted. Among 20 couple from
Berkeley Castle came Paradox, and although, after hunt-
ing stag for two seasons, she was begged back by Harry
Ayriss, she left behind her at Mentmore two splendid
daughters, Primrose and Princess, by Mr. Drake's Satel-
lite, to perpetuate her blood. In the present pack Pilgrim,
by Lord Fitzhardinge's Palmerston, although a wayward
hound, is a great favourite of the huntsman, Fred Cox;
but the apple of his eye is Random, by Lord Fitz ar.nges
Roderick, out of a Yarborough bitch. Random
is a tho-
roughin line hunter, with a deep melodious tongue, good
chase, and without an atom of jealousy. "inl
t Nsh'eo ualedt no tf
take 1,000 guineas for him," shouted Cox,
charging a blackthorn fence, an assertion which be quali-
fied the next morning with the following important addition
—" if 1 had the baron's money." The first object of a
master of staghounds should be to divest the sport, as
tmts iucleh
caasn, likeposs ofhibtle,e reaalll
thing. tameness,iaon de
effect
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hoes near , r
should be turned out into a quiet spot,
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who
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.nd irrespective of the harm
are accompaniedhbiymnilaonvioanw, a , boys ponies, second
hoit-sehereyecoa,nank(eleopthers, who continue to ride the deer as long
as
sley do in croftsseringw.tihmetsecherivt;etehielayvaecht
oausnfdusgtloemgeetnsefottrletdhe?
field to ride a •
They are brought out upon foiled ground, and tho hard
riders instantly start off, heedless of the hounds, as they
do in sonie countries after the fox. Could any system be
devised more calculated to make hounds unsteady ? A
second deer-cart, to mislead the mischief-doers, has &nue-
times been tried with success. When once the hounds are
laid on, they should never be stopped. The practice of
stopping staghounds is the great blemish of the sport; it
spoils the hounds, it spoils the run, itspoils everything, not
excepting the temper of the field. Just as they are expect-
ing that they are in far a good thing, and excitement is at
its highest point, their hopes are dashed to the ground,
and their spirits sent below zero. The excuse that is made
in defence of stopping hounds is that it enables a stout slow
deer to get ahead, and thereby give a better run; a longer
and more draggling one, perhaps,whereas every endeavour
should be to make it sharp and decisive. Another reason
sometimes put forward is, that the hounds are stopped for
the sake of saving the deer, but it is a very futile one. A
deer is not so easily killed if run into whilst he is strong,
but when bounds have been stopped, and the deer has got
gradually weaker and weaker, the least accident will finish
him. An exception, however, to the rule of never stopping
the hounds may be made in the case of a view. A view
does harm to the hounds, as it takes them off their noses,
and causes them to look out for views. Besides, at beA,
it is a little better than a bad course, and however well

A PARALLEL.—Mr. Bright is a reading man, and
therefore it is to be supposed that he knows something of
the history of the 18th century. Does he remember what
took place on the 2d of June in the year 1780, while the
Duke of Richmond was advocating Parliamentary Reform
before his brother peers, and urging them to adopt annual
Parliaments and universal suffrage ? On that very day an
enormous multitude met in St. George's-fields, for the pur-
pose of presenting a no-popery petition to Parliament, under
theguidance of Lord George Gordon. There were no trades'
unions in those days; nevertheless, the multitude were
duly marshalled, and marched by three separatQ routes from
the place of meeting, and finally assembled in front of the
Hou.es of Parliament to present their monster petition.

Everybody remembers, or ought to remember, the result.
Protestautism, pure and undefiled, was in league with
ruffianism, impure and defiled ; and through the
stupidity; cowardice, and irresolution of the magistracy,
Loudon for six days was given up to flames and plundering
on a gigantic scale. We do not suppose that if thesthreat-
ened Reform procession ever made its appearance at West-
minster it. would pelt Mr. Disrasli, drag Lord Derby from
his carriage, knock General Peel into the dirt, or cry "A la
lauterne !" when Mr. Lowe appeared. There is a vast dif-
ference between that time and this; but it is as well to
remember, when such propositionsas that of the League are
made, how easily and rapidly the gathering of a mob may
lead to a riot. It should not be forgotten that once on a
time a vast mob professed to come to petition but really re-
mained to kick the President of the Council and drag Lord
Boston from his carriage, and trample on him, and so nearly
finished the Archbishop of York that he was forced to put
on woman's clothes in order to get safely home again from
a neighbouring house. It is well also to remember that,
having smashed these and a good many more peers and
M.P.'s, the offended Protestantism and pickpoeketism of
London straightway proceeded to execute justice on their
enemies, burning two or three Catholic chapels, just by
way of getting their hands in ; and that on the next night
they burnt a few more chapels, and then burnt Newgate and
set all the prisoners loose, and did not go home in the morn-
ing until they had also burnt Lord Mansfield's house in
Bloomsbury-square, with all his rare and costly library.
Being further kindly encouraged by the Ministers and -
magistrates of the day, who did nothing at all to stop
them, they continued to propagate Gospel truth by burn-
ing the Fleet, the Marshalsea, and the King's Bench
prisons, with suudrY private and public buildings, so that
at one time 36 fires were to be counted blazing at one mo-
ment. It is true that by the Bth of Juno it was all over, at
the cost of shooting down a few hundred Protestants and
burglars-285 being actually killed, and some 200 or 300
wounded. Afterwards, moreover, what used to be called
" justice" did its work, and 29 rioters, chiefly young men
and boys, wore actually hanged; while the instigator of
all these things was tried, it is true, but was acquitted,
and sent about his business. No doubt there is a good
deal of difference between Lord George Gordon and the
council of the Reform League.—Pall-Mall Gazette.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.—He can say the
most unpalatable things in the pleasantest possible way.
He does not appeal to the pride and pugnacity of hid
countrymen,in
which
a m manor t
ce
al t lst
teamn
dt hueptr
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hmt ear incda
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as twh e
freeonly b r
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al at che.
He thinks there is "no sufficient flavour of humanity in
the soil" out of which they grow, and that it makes aman
Hhuemwainnentoot ‘d‘
elinvye
tohnetphaestolfdorhtuhmeansaiskeed
osof igPl'orioffyEinug r otpehe.
present. " They say a dead man's hand cures swellings
if laid on them ; nothing like the dead cold hand of the
past to take down our tumid egotism." He is equally the
enemy of "high-falutin," and spread-eagloism, and social
slang. "First-rate," " prime," "a prime article," "a supe-
rior:piece of goods," a "gent in a flowered vest ;" all such
expressions are final. They blast the lineage of him or
her who utteis 'them for generations up and down. Ho
tells .them that " good breeding is surface Christianity."
He slyly consoles them with the thought that " goad
Americans when they die gd to Paris." He is thoroughly
national himself, and would have American patriotism
large and liberal, not a narrow proirincial conceit. The
"autocrat" is assuredly one of the pleasantest specimens of
the American gentlemen, and one of the most charming of
all chatty companions; genial, witty, and wise—never
wearisome. We fancy the "Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table" is not so well known or widely read in this country
as it deserves to be. A more delightful book has not come
over the Atlantic.—Quarterly Review.
THE CONDITION OF SPLIN.—A Madrid corre-
spondent (writing Feb. 1) says Order reigns at
Madrid, but how long it will last the most prescient cannot
say, except that such order is as precarious as the regi-
men that upholds it. Those among the inhabitants of
Madrid having something worth saving have made
their preparations to leave at a moment's notice.
However, the terrorism adopted by the Government, and
the recent arrest and summary convictions of journalists
do not prevent their revolutionary papers and proclama-
tions from appearing in the very heart of the capital. Al-
though all that braggadocio from the revolutionary press
is duly appreciated by impartial people, it produces a bane-
ful influence upon the masses. As to the public distress,
it is prevalent above all in the southern provinces. The
newspapers of Grenada, Cordova, and Seville, daily bring
us harrowing pictures from those parts. The palace of
the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier is always full of
people without the first necessaries of life, and whoourey
receive their assistance in food and money. ft
is
rutomreviv4e
in official circles that the Government is trying
applied to the representative of the
the national credit. It is even saidh thatouse
i
nt of Spain's foreign
a loan to be applied to the settle of az:•zs
Ind- sfeol
rf
eldrsveisthseaicdonto-
have replied that, supposing
successors of Narvaez
debt. The representative ofest
good, it would not follow tha
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tthteiteguarantees offered were
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princip e , tle so-
M.ontpensier has been
and Gonzales Bravo woulddeoided
upon
in
lenictellantdhsochbsi
vernment is only waitiug for 1
• detvrmtned not. to gtve the least
his Royal Highness is
tracts of their predecessors. raT,hreetee.xxti,le.bouft.
it
concluded between S?:tiu and the Southern
peace had been
chance to the Cabiike: There less been. ruttionr tlt
to the resolute intervention of the
lUlenpituebdliSeg' intateosw;bgut no official news has been received to
that effect."