The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 141110AY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
(Before Mr. Forsyth and a Common Jury.)

WHIT THEY DRINK AT THE RAGLAN MUSIC ItAT:L-

WRETTON V. -

This was an action to recover the value of some brandy,
warrant for which was lodged with the defendant, who is
the proprietor of the Raglan Music Hall.
Mr. Francis appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Little repre-
senting defendant.

Plaintiff deposed that he had lodged the warrant with
defendant, and received upon it an advance of £2 10s.
When he went to redeem it, he was told that the warrant
had been lost. Ho found that it had been taken out of
bond, and then called upon the defendant, who said he
had had a good deal of trouble in the matter, and gave him
half a sovereign.
Defendant was called, and said that he advanced £7 10s.
on the !malady, and he had offered it back if the duty was
paid back to him,

Cross-examined —There were forty-four gallons of the
brandy, but it was not worth having. He would much
rather have British brandy. (Laughter.) He did not sell
it as brandy at the Raglan, because it would not go down.
Did not retail it at the usual 6d. per glass. He had mired
it with rum before he could sell it. Ho had a sample of
the stuff which the learned counsel could taste if he liked.
His Lordship—You can taste it, Mr. Francis. (Laughter.)
Mr. Francis—l can only repeat the old saying—" It is
too eftrly in the morning."
A witness.was called, who said he had seen defendant
advance pieces of gold to the plaintiff.
The learned counsel on each side having addressed the
jury, his lordship was about to sum up when the foreman
said that they had made up their minds, and unanimously
found a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE ASH, STEWART, AND BAILLIE.

These bankrupts Were shipbuilders, of Blackwall, and
to-day came up on the adjourned order of discharge. The
debts are £BO,OOO, and assets but trifling. A further ad-
journment was ordered so that the figures might be fully
considered, and the various matters connected with the
bankruptcy investigated by the assignees.

POLIC.E INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE RESULT OF PAYING A NIGHT VISIT TO ST.
JAMES'S WORKHOUSE.-Mr. David Greenhall, harness
maker, of No. 43, Rupert-street, was charged before Mr
Knox with applying for and obtaining relief at St. James's
Workhouse, he having money and other valuable property
in his possession, and not giving a correct account of
himself.

Charles Densham, superintendent of the casual ward at
St. James's Workhouse, said—Last night, about a quarter
past 9 o'clock the defendant applied for relief, and was ad-
mitted to the casual ward. I gave him the usual allowance,
and showed him his berth. I afterwards searched him,
and found.upon him 6s. 91c1 and other property. The de-
fendant then said that he was a respectable man, and asked
to be allowed to leave. I told the defendant that I could
not permit that. The defendant was afterwards given into
the custody of a constable (Cox, 177 C).

Defendant—•l had had a little more to drink than I ough
to have had.

The Superintendent—The defendant was quite sober,
His only excuse was that he wished to see the place.
Mr. Knox (to defendant)—What are you ?
Defendant—l am an army accoutrement maker in Rupert-
street, and have been there many years.
The Superintendent—Ho said he had slept at Green-
wich workhouse the previous night.
Mr. Knox (to defendant)—What is your name ?

Defendant.—Greenhall.
Sergeant Stephens, acting inspector—That is the case
His name is in the Directory, and he is known to the super-
intendent and one of the inspectors.
Defendant—lt was a drunken frolic.

Mr. Knox—Did the defendant consume any of the bread
and gruel ?
The Superintendent—Ho ate some of the bread and
tasted the gruel. He then offered me his card, and asked
to be allowed to go, saying it was only a drunken frolic.
Mr. Knox—Then the defendant is really a tradesman in
Rupert-street ?
Sergeant Stephens—He is, sir.

Mr. Knox—lt is a very dangerous frolic. Do you know
that you are liable to be sent to prison for a month with
hard labour.

Defendant—l am aware it was very stupid of me.

Mr. Knox—lt is the first case of the kind that has been
brought before me. I consider it is a serious offence that
persons of decent position should go to a workhou:e
and make a mockery of applying for relief, and if
it is done by them it will be done by others.
I do not wish to do that which may be of serious injury
to you, and therefore I do not choose to send you to prison
aye I think that would-be too groat punicinn ant. I think
the publicity the matter is likely to obtain, and the trouble
you have been put to, sufficient punishment. 1 shall dis-
charge you, seriously cautioning you against repeating
the act.

A Neat Sample of Translation.

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(DICKENS "DONE" INTO FRENCH !)

" Traduttore, traditore," says the Italian proverb.
It probably originated with some unlucky wight,
either smarting under recent injuries inflicted on
the offspring of his brain by traditori, or gifted
with the power to foresee the dire calamities to be
inflicted by them on his brotherhood in future
generations.
One would suppose that two qualifications are
essential to constitute a good translator A thorough
acquaintance with the resources of the language
used for the reproduction, being the first; and the
second, a not less intimate knowledge 401 g idiom
destined to be reproduced.
We will submit, as a rather remarkable instance
of the absence of both these qualifications in a
translator—or rather, in a trauslatress, for the
wonderful offender to be presented is announced as
lady—a few extracts from a surprising mystification
which appeared a few months ago in the columns
of L' Opinion Nationale, a French daily paper, well
known for its very liberal tendencies, and for that,
or some other reason, one of the most popular aid
generally read in Paris. The editors had announced
some time beforehand the appearance of a transla-
tion of " Our Mutual Friend ;" and the lovers of
feuilleton, whose name is Legion in France, were
on the tiptoe of expectation. At last it came, bear-
ing the title L'Ami Commun. It came to grief, and
that as deservedly as speedily; for the subscribers
to the above-named journal take common sense for
their guide, and, like Mrs. Merdle, pride themselves
upon having no nonsense about them. So, after
having groped about in the dark during six fuille-
tons of Mutual Friends, in the hope of things
brightening, though ever so little, they protested en
masse after the appearance of the seventh, and de-
manded with a loud cry, not to be resisted, the expla-
nation of the dark euigma, or its immediate withdrawal.
For self-evident reasons, the Sphinx remained
silent, and suppression was the righteous conse-
quence.

From the outset, a sort of moral stand-up fight
was engaged in between the translatress and Mr.
Twemlow as to which should the most effectually
demolish the other. All the other characters yet
developed in the book suffered more or less from the
horrible punishment administered by the lady ; but
Twemlow, the special object of her attention, suf-
fered the most severely of all. The inoffensive little
gentleman being likewise made the instrument of
inflicting such acute mental torture on all who should
attempt to unravel the complicated mysteries of his
identity, as to render consequent insanity probable.
Witness the following introduction of Mr. Twem-
low to the French reader : "Ii y a dans le guar-
tier Saint-James, oil quand it ne sort pas, it est
remise au-dess d'una donne de Duke-street, un
meuble de salle a manger, meuble innocent, chausse
de larger sonhirs de castor" (the underlined being a
rather free translation of the word castors in the
English text), " pour qui les Veneering sont un
sujet d'inquietude parpetuelle. Cousin germain de
lord Snigsworth ce meuble inoffensif, qu'on appelle
Twemlow, represents dans maintes families la table
a manger a, Petat normal.
" Mister et Missis Veneering, par exemple,
organisant un diner, prennent Twemlow pour base,
et lui mettent des rallonges, c'est-h-dire lui ajoutent
des convives. Parfois la table se compose de Twem-
low et de six personnes ; parfois on la tire jusqu'aux
dernieres limites du possible, et Twemlow a vingt
rallonges.
" Dans ces grander occasions, Mister et Missis
Veneering, places au milieu de la table, se font vis-
h-vis h distance de Twemlow ; car plus celui-ci est
deploys, plus it est loin du centre et se rapproche
du buffet ou des rideaux de la fenetre."

Is it surprising, after this magnificent heap o
. .

nonsense,. in which common sense, good language,
the merest elementary principles of grammar, are
most grossly outraged, that the subject of it should
become henceforth an object of general fear and
execration ? The very stops themselves seem to
have gone mad, and to be, like so many ill-disposed
policemen off duty, taking alittle relaxation by join-
ing in a public disturbance on their own account.
Twemlow and the table, the table and Twemlow,
commas, colons, and semi-colons, inextricably mixed
up together, in stark staring raving madness.

IWere it not for the total absence of any vestige
of the comic element, and divers other reasons, social and
political, the recent alliance, and so forth. one might sup-
pose that the author of this extraordinary specimen of
literary reproduction had been bribed by our enemies
to travesty our author, and with him the manners
and customs of his nation comprehensively. She leads her
countrymen to suppose that the English " garb of woe" is
the colour of pea-soup, by representing Boffin, Boffin in
deep mourning for his master, as wearing a paletot purée
de pois 1 (This is the translation of a peajacket.) And a
little further on, the lady changes the dissolving view of
beads on Podsnap's forehead into a row of indiscreet
buttons on his abdomen ! If she really considered them
so indiscreet, why did she not (being, as translatress, mistress
of the situation) dispose of the indiscreet buttons on other
parts of his Person—on his gaiters, for instance r But
the word bouton, signifying either a button or
a pimple, according to circumstances—there be-
ing but one and the same term in French for the
two objects—we shudder to think that she may have had a
darker meaning still, and, by this ambiguous interpretation,
may have intended to authorise maliciously disposed
foreigners to believe that we English adopt for occasions of
social festivity and others the light costume of the Red Skins:
which fact could alone render such a detail possible!
Once more, take a specimen of Twemlow shrouded in
more impenetrable mystery than ever. "La premiere foi
que Twemlow h rencontrejVeneering, c'etat aiu club,
oh ledit Veneering ne connaissait personne, excepts
l'individu qui le prdsentait. Cat individu lui-meme
ne connaissait le nouveau membre que depuis deux jours
et paraissait etre son ami le plus intime. Une rouelle
de veau, scdlSratement accomodee par le cuisinier du club,
crimenta leur union sdance tenante." -
Are the two last original lines high praise of the Eng-
lish art of cooking, or the contrary ? They contain a most
positive affirmation that the cooks of the London clubs
have a particular manner of dressing fillets of veal, which
dish, partaken of by individuals desirous of uniting in the
bonds of friendship, immediately cements the bonds then
and there for evermore !
Is it wonderful, when such astounding incompetency as
that of this translatress can find its way into a Parisian
newspaper conducted with intelligence and enterprise, that
we in England sometimes hear intelligent Frenchmen—at
the disadvantage of not being able to judge for themselves
in the original, and therefore left at the mercy of those who
profess to make them acquainted with English literature
—denounce Shakspere as a villanous hypochondriac, re-
velling in blooashed and all descriptions of crime, and em-
phatically declaring the creations of Byron to be all bosh!
on the ground that the last-named poet had a cloven foot,
and the weakness to desire to hide it ? Handed over to

.
such intolerable translators, what benefit are they likely to
derive from the reading of Hamlet or Childe Harold ?
. _

—Charles Dickens's All the Year Round.

CHARLES KNIGHT'S ENGLISH CYCLOP/EDIA we
see with pleasure is announced for early publication,
in a popular re-issue, in cheap weekly numbers. It is to
commence with the division of "Arts and Sciences," and
will be followed immediately by "Biography," " Geo-
graphy," and " Natural History," all increased in value by
means of Supplements now preparing. This excellent oppor-
tunity for possessing so valuable a book is well alluded to
in the Prospectus : " To the members of Mechanics' and
Literary and Scientific Institutions, Working Men's Clubs,
and other associations for the purchase and common use of
otherwise inaccessible works of research and reference,
this mode of re-issue seems particularly well adapted y
whilst there are doubtless many individuals who, unable
to pay large sums at once, would gladly avail themselves
of the opportunity, by easy payments at short intervals, of
possessing so useful and extensive a work as ' The Eng-
lish Cyclopeedia.' "

THE FOXHOUNDS AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—It
is a somewhat significant fact that at Nantwich, a district
that has perhaps suffered more from cattle plague than any
other in the country, the Board of Guardians have passed
a resolution asking Lord Grosvenor and the gentlemen of
the Cheshire Hunt not to give up the sport, as they are of
opinion that the hounds do not convey the disease from
farm to farm so much as batchers' and other dogs that
prowl about the infected spots at night seeking after car-
rion. The motion was moved by Mr. Wright, of Minshull,
and seconded by Mr. Goulbourn, of Wicksley, the latter
one of the largest sufferers by rinderpest in the country,
having lost 175 head of stock since September. On the
other hand, some of the Shropshire farmers, of the Wem
and Whitchurch • district, have expressed a strong wish
that hunting should be given up for the present, and Sir
Watkins W. Wynn stated at the mayor's dinner at Oswes-
try on Friday that, of course, hunting must depend upon
what the farmers felt, and he intended to abide by the de-
cision arrived at by Lord Grosvenor, who was about to
consult the Cheshire farmers on the subject.—Qswestry
Advertiser.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13, Evening.
A band of outlaws have captured the steamer Lily, laden
with 1,000 bales of cotton, on the Alabama River, and have
taken her up Tombigbee River.

It is reported that the letter signed Stephens, confirming
O'Mahony's appointment, is a forgery.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money abundant. Gold, 1391. Exchange on London,
1501; on Paris, 3f. 74c.
Stocks slightly firmer. New York Central, 94k ; Illinois,
127 ; Erie, 911; Five-Twenty Bonds, 103-1.
Cotton slightly firmer—middling upland, Mc. Flour
depressed. Wheat heavy. Corn and provisions declining.
Coffee slightly firmer. Sugar steady. Molasses heave•.
Petroleum steady—crude, 36e. ; refined, 58c.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12.
Cotton slightly firmer—middling upland, 48e. to 49c.

SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.

The Hamburg-American Company's screw steamship
Bavaria, Captain H. Taube, sailed for New York last night,
with German, French, and English mails, a full comple-
ment of cabin and steerage passengers, 40,868 f. value from
Havre, and a large cargo. The Borussia, Captain H. F.
Schwensen, with mails from New York of the 20th inst., is
due off Cowes, en route for Hamburg, on Wednesday next.
The Allemannia, Captain H. N. Trautmann, is appointed
to leave this port for New York on Wednesday, the 7th of
February, with mails, passengers, and cargo. The paddle-
wheel steamship Valetta, which has been sold to the
Egyptian Government by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, left to-day for Alexandria.

QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 25.

The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship
Helvetia, from Liverpool, arrived here at 4 45 p.m. to-day,
and having embarked passengers and latest despatches,
proceeded for New York at 6 30 p.m.; all well.

FALMOUTH, Jan. 25.

The New York and Havre Company's American mail
steamer Fulton, from Havro yesterday, called here to-day
to embark passengers, and proceeded this afternoon for
New York. She takes out 11 passengers, the mail, and a
large general cargo, and landed here seven passengers
from Havro.

The Jamaica Insurrection.

ARREST AND TRIAL OP GORDON.

The following is an authentic account of the
court-martial by which G. W. Gordon was con-

demned :
At a court-martial assembled by order of Brigadier Ge-
neral Nelson at Dlora,nt Bay, on the 21st day of October,
1865: Present—Lieutenant C. A. Brand, R.N., president ;
Lieutenant Errington, R.N., member ; Ensign P. Kelly,
4th West India Regiment, member, proceeded to try George
W. Gordon, charged with—
" For, that before the time of the insurrection at Morant
Bay, on the 11th day of October, 1865, when the rebels
massacred the custos, the Baron von Ketelholt, and divers
other persons, being justices of the peace, or other occupa-
tions, assembled in vestry on such day, the said George
William Gordon did, in furtherance of the said massacre,

at divers periods previous to the same, incite and advise,
with certain of the insurgents there, by his influence tend-
ing to cause the riot, whereby many of her most gracious
Majesty's subjects lost their lives when assembled in law-
ful consideration of parochial and other matters—the said
George William Gordon is arraigned:—
" First—On the charge of high treason against her Ma-
jesty Queen Victoria.
" Second—With having complicity with certain parties
who were engaged in the rebellion, riot, or insurrection at
Morant Bay, on the 11th day of October, 1865."
The Court having been duly sworn, the prisoner
pleaded Not Guilty.
John Anderson, sworn—The last timethe prisoner went
up to Stoney Gut he came to the Chapel Highland Castle
at Stoney Gut. Ile says to Paul Bogle, " They are going
to hold a public meeting. We must get up some men for
to go to Morant Bay to seek about the back land, and if
we don't get the back lands all the buckra they will die ;"
and after that Paul Bogle asked me if I would join them.
I tell him "No, I would not join it, because when all
buckra dead how we are going to manage ?" and he said,
"If I don't join it they will kill you." I was forced to

travel away to Leith-hall Barracks. Paul Bogle got
M'Laren to go up the mountain to look for hands and to
come to Morant Bay.

Prisoner—On what day did you see me at Stoney Gut ?
Witness—Sunday.
In what month and in what year P—This year, I know.
June or July, I believe, but I did not date it down.
Was there any other person there besides Bogle and my-
self ? •- Plenty more.
Did I say that publicly in the presence of all ?—Yes.
What time of the day was it ?—After chapel was over.
About this time, 3 p.m.
You know me ?—Yes.

James Gordon, sworn, said—Mr. Gordon sent that all
the people must gather up money and send it to him that
ho might pay it for the letter to go home to the Queen,
and if tho letter won't go he will go himself to see the
Queen face to face, and when we tell the man we not able
to do that, if it is the Queen sent we will do so, and he
said we must try endeavour, and if we got the money we
must send it in a letter, and send it to a post-office, and
direct it " G. W. Gordon," at the back, and ho will receive
it anywhere at all.
(Written documents were produced and read in court
marked A, and attached.)
Prisoner—How do you know the letter came frome me ?
Witness—Because it was signed by Geo. W. Gordon.
Do you know my signature ?—No.

Gordon Ramsay, being duly sworn—l produce a depo-
sition of Thomas Johnson, made on his death-bed. He is
since dead.

The Court —Did the dying man say that they were Mr.
Gordon's friends at Stoney Gut, or did he mean to say he
heard they were ?
Witness—He said, Gordon's friends. Gordon teach
them.

Hero was read document C, then D, then E, then F,
hen one of G, being one of many of G. W. Gordon's papers
found in his portmanteau.)
Mrs. Gough, postmistress of Morant Bay, sworn, stated—
There was a correspondence between Mr. Gordon and cer-
tain parties—George M'lntosh, William Grant, the saddler,
William uhisholm, James M‘Laren. I have seen a letter
for Paul Bogle from the prisoner.
The Court—You can swear to the handwriting ?
Witness -- Yes : I know his handwriting Well.
Look at that and tell if you know it.—That came in two
packages, one to Chisholm, one to Paul Bogle, addressed
by Mr. Gordon in his writing. (Here was shown a placard
headed " State of the Island ;" Chisholm's letter, too.)
Are those in Gordon's handwriting ?—They are.
Was it not customary for the prisoner to attend all vestry
meetings ?—Yes.
And was it not an exceptional instance his missing the
very day of the slaughter 2—lt was. Everybody thought
it very strange.
Have you seen or hoard of the meetings here —I never
heard of them.
Were they kept secret ?—I do not know.
Are you aware that I have been corresponding for years
with Bogle ?—I only remember one letter about some sugar.
When was my last letter to Bogle ?—Cannot say.
Was it more or less than two months?—l cannot recol-
lect the exact time.
Are you not aware that Chisholm is an old servant of
mine, and that I have always been in correspondence with
him, more or less ?—I was not aware that he was then a
servant of yours.
Then I will make it friend ? —When prisoner comes late
into the bay he .always says he will get his grass from
Chisholm—that is all I know.
Did a letter come through the post for Mr. M'lntosh
lately ?—There was a paper with a penny stamp on it for
M'lntosh.
What induced you to take that placard out of the cover
or wrapper ?—lt was a habit at the post-office to take out
papers, read them, and return them.
Was the seal off, or how did you get out ?—A book par-
cel, with both ends clear.
Did you know I was suffering from indisposition ?—I
never heard.
James M'Laren sworn, said—l know Mr. Gordon was a
member of the House of Assembly.
The Court—Do you know Mr. Gordon has something to
do with the rebellion ?
Witness—That I don't know of.
Did you ever hear of Mr. Gordon being connected with
Paul Bogle ?—Paul Bogle always voted for him.
Do you know James Gordon know several James
Gordons.
Prisoner—Did I over send you up to the mountains to
raise money, or in any way to tell the people not to pay for
land, or anything improper ?
Witness—No.
Mr. Ramsey here produced another letter from the pri-
soner to E. C. Smith, marked "private," checked I. The
prisoner admitted the letter to be his writing.
This was the case for the Crown. The pri-
soner's defence has already appeared in The Sun, at
the conclusion of which he was sentenced to death.
Brigadier Nelson added the following minute to
the record of the proceedings and the sentence of
the court :

Approved and confirmed.
Moreover, I fully concur in the sentence awarded, such
being fully borne out by the evidence.
The prisoner to be hung on Monday next, the 23d of
October, 1865 ; to-morrow, the 22d, being Sunday, and the
state of this part of the country not rendering it necessary
to inflict the punishment on the Sabbath-day.
A. A. NELSON, Brigadier-General, Com-
manding Field Forces.
'Morant Bay, Oct. 21, 1865, 8 p.m.