The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 'lB6l.

LATV INT.ELLIG E.N CE—( n'ts Day

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)

REPEAL OP THE TAPER DUTY AND THE BOOKBINDERS,-

CROUCH V. HARE.

This was a judgment summons, defendant being a book-
binder.
His Honour—Well, Mr. Hare, why have you not paid
this claim ?
Defendant—l have had nothing to do.
His Honour—l see you are a bookbinder.
Defendant—Yes, but the duty being taken off paper has
thrown us all out of work.
His Honour—Surely you do not mean to say that the
repeal of the paper duty interferes with your work ?
Defendant—l do. People won't make any more until
the Ist of October.

His Honour—And we are to have no more books.
Plaintiff and defendant then began to open up the case,
but his honour, who appeared rather struck with defen-
dant's excuse, said, " You can't go into the matter again ;
but tell me, Mr. Hare, how is it the duty off paper makes
all this difference ?"
Defendant—Well, they wish to use up their old stock.
You see it will make a difference of £l4 per ton to them,
and so they won't make any more till the Ist October.
His Honour granted defendant a longer time.
In a second case a label printer said that times were very
bad, and that dealers would net now keep any stock.
His Honour observed that the repeal of the paper duty
appeared to cause all the mischief, and granted defendant
a little time.

POLICE iNTELLIGENCE.—( This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—A BROTHER CHARORD
His SISTER.—John Perry, a tall young man, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a gold watch and chaittp
a diamond brooch, and other articles of jewellery of the
value of £6O, the property of Emily Perry, of 6, Boyle-
street, Saville-row.

The prosecutrix said the prisoner is my brother. On
Saturday morning last, about half-past two, I missed from
my bed-room and drawing-room tables a quantity of jewel-
lery, a gold watch and chain, and a purse with some gold in
it—my loss being about £6O. I had seen them safe a short
time before. The prisoner had called, I ascertained from
the servant, to sea me a little before 12, but I had not then
reached home. As soon as I missed the property I sus-
pected my brother, and went to Vine-street and gave infor-
mation tQ the police.
Prisoner—You say the servant saw me before 12; you
can't say I was there afterwards. I was seen this morning
by a constable, and pointed out to him, and then he said he
saw me leave the house at 5 o'clock.

Prosecutrix—A latch-key was missed from the kitchen
dresser, but afterwards, when the robbery was discovered,
the key was found.
Sergeant Joy, 9 C—Yesterday morning, from information
I received, I took the prisoner into custody at Luton, Bed-
fordfordshire, where he was detained by the police. I told
him I was a police sergeant, and that he was charged with
stealing a quantity of jewellery, at 6, Boyle-street, Saville,
row. At first ha made no reply, but afterwards said, " I
know all about it. If I had not been c.,nfined here I should
have been able to get the whole of the jewellery back for
my sister." He also said he was detained there to find the
female who had the whole of the property, and that the
female lived at 2, Queen-street, Borough, but that she had
gone away with the whole of the property. I have made
inquiries, and ascertained that he has been living with the
female in Queen-street, but that she had gone away. I
wish for a remand, that I may have the servant here to show
that the prisoner was in the house.
Prisoner—Once before, because I am a little racketty
they said I had tried to get into the house, while I had not
been near it for two months.
Remanded.

MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT AT

CHIPPENITIAIT.

On Tuesday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, an ,
accident attended with fatal consequences occurred
on the river Avon at Chippenham. Some time
during that evening the Misses Awdry, accom-
panied by their brother, Mr. West Steward Awdry
(second son of West Awdry, Esq., the respected
under-sheriff of Wilts, and cousin of Sir John Aw-
dry), the Misses Lowther, of Derry Hill, near Chip-
penham, and the younger members of Mr. W.
Awdry's family, went out for an aquatic excursion
near Monckton House, which stands by the side of
the river. One of the boats was a large one, and
contained four persons, and the other a smaller one,
contained the Misses Lowther, and Mr. W. S.
Awdry. The boats proceeded quietly along till
they came to the piece of dead water above the
Cbippenham Grist Mill, when the large boat was
turned round, and unfortunately came into collision
with the smaller one, capsizing it, and throwing its
occupants into the river. The elder Miss Lowther
clung to Mr. Awdry, who made a desparate effort
to carry her ashore. Although a good swimmer,
so tightly did the young lady cling to him, that all
his attempts to save her and himself were unavailing,
and they both sank. The scene now became ter-
ribly painful. The heartrending cries of the young
ladies in the larger boat attracted the attention of
tne son of the Rev. Mr. Clarke, who fortunately
happened to be near, and he boldly plunged into
the water, and rescued the younger Miss Lowther,
bringing her to land just as she was on the point
of sinking. By this time assistance was obtained,
and hooks and grappling irons procured to search
for the bodies of tne two persons who had dis-
appeared ; but they were not recovered till 11
o'clock the same evening, when of course life was
extinct. Mr. West Awdry was absent at the Wilts
Quarter Sessions, at Warminster, and on the sad
intelligence being forwarded to him returned in
time to see the bodies taken out of the stream. The
deceased young gentleman was to have left home on
Monday next, for the purpose of taking a commis-
sion in the army. It is a singular coincidence that
the father of Miss Lowther was drowned in India
some time since. Pier mother is absent in London.
The deceased young lady and her sister were on a
visit to Mr. W. Awdry, at Monckton House.—Bath
Chronicle.

THIS DAY'S ALA.R.KETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

The supply of English wheat on sale here, to-day, was
very small; nevertheless, the trade, generally, ruled slow,
only fine samples being in request, at Monday's currency.
All descriptions of foreign wheat changed hands to a
limited extent. In prices, however, no quotable change
took place. The show of samples was moderately ex-
tensive.
Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate demand, and
the quotations were supported.
Barley, however, met a dull sale at barely stationary
prices.
Good and fine qualities of malt were firm in price, but
other kinds were a dull inquiry.
Oats moved off heavily, at a decline of 6d per quarter for
inferior qualities.
Beans were a slow sale, and peas were in limited request,
at barely previous quotations.
Most kinds of flour were dealt in to a limited extent, on
former terms.

ARRIVALS THIS 'WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English.. 940 4,610 760 1 1,120
Irish — -- 20 ,
Foreign 24,520 5,610 ; --28,920 1 1,770 sack
10,970 brls.

R. VINCENT 'SCULLY AND THE
PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS.

It is not without pain that we find ourselves
called on to do justice to an injured individual at
the expense of the whole human race. Mr. Vincent
Scully is the complainant, and it is his single inte-
rest we are called on to regard against that of all
the world. Mr. Scully possesses the happy though
not very extraordinary power of speaking at any
length, upon any subject, with an average amount
of sense and in perfectly good Irish. It is a capa-
city we should be the last to depreciate.
Within bounds, and upon proper occasions—as,
for example, when a Maynooth bill is to be
shelved by an adjournment —Mr. Scully is
a very useful man, and we should be sorry our-
selves to be described as he will probably find
himself in Mr. Spooner's posthumous memoirs.
Excepting that the habit of talking with the eye
on a clock face is not favourable to unity of subject
or continuity of thought, Mr. Scully cannot be con-
sidered a bad speaker; but when he speaks, as he
does, 15 times in two or three nights—when he has
mastered the stages of a bill for the purpose of de-
livering himself at every possible opportunity, and
when he speaks without interruption for hours,
sometimes without ever entering upon his subject,
we find it simply impossible to do him the justice
he requires. There are only 24 hours in the day ;
we can't bring out a third sheet every morning;
the public already complain of the quantity
they are expected to read, and, in a word, we
are obliged to treed Mr. Scully as we should
treat the best friend we had in the world, and
leave him in the hands of the reporters. These gen-
tlemen have the happy knack by long practice of
knowing what the public will care to read, and
what they will certainly pass over. They know
what is necessary to the point of the speaker, or the
force of his argument. They are also as dispas-
sionate and as just as Minos and Rhadamanthus
themselves, and condense or omit only in the inte-
rest of mankind. The result is that when Mr.
Scully has seen with his own eyes the hour hand
performing half the circuit of the clock-face, and
has already pictured himself occupying a whole
page of the paper, he wakes in -the morning and
finds himself reduced to a quarter of a column.
When he has thrown off, as he imagines, a succes-
sion of brilliant impromptus, he finds himself only
alluded to as the author of some observations. This
is all the harder, inasmuch as Mr. Scully pos-
sesses ' the ear of the house and the eye of the
Speaker. He has also the testimony of an unquali-
fied self-esteem, and yet he is scarcely heard beyond
the walls of Parliament. His voice is like the
wonderful echo in the vaults of a large building,
which produces something like a salvo of artillery,
below, but is not heard even on the floor imme-
diately at eve. In the House itself Mr. Vincent
Scully seems everything, but the world no more
hears him out of doors than the passers-by in Pall-
mall hear the animated conversations in the clubs.
Mr. Scully very naturally, we are bound to say,
resents to be thus defrauded of his due influence
and force. He is compelled to speak with a mused
tongue, and to hold his light under a bushel.
So he asks that, in the place of the present
Parliamentary reports, which, Wing intended
for general reading, are adapted to the taste and
powers of the reading public, there may be an
authorised and exact report, giving every word
uttered, at whatever length and cost. If nobody
else read it, at all events Mr. Scully would read it
himself,—at least the report of his own speeches,
and a good many other members would probably
read theirs too.
The proposal of a perfectly full report for the
satisfaction of members and their constituents is
a question rather for the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer than for ourselves. Such a publication
would not in any way interfere with the daily
report of the Parliamentary proceedings which
the public expect to find in a morning paper, and
which they wish to get through, if possible, at
a sitting. The reports are already quite long
enough, and gentlemen with a good deal of time on
their hands are wont to complain of the immense
quantity of matter they are expected to master
before they sit down to dinner. Mr. Scully con-
fesses to a good deal of surplusage, and even admits
that the habit has grown upon him. The more he
talks the more he has to say. He used to confine
himself to sense, but latterly has diluted his argu-
ments with nonsense in order to fill up the time, and
to arrest the attention of members who had become
indifferent to the legitimate considerations proper
to the subject. Mr. Scully is aware of becoming
more and more tumid, wordy, and diffuse. As the
Latin grammar says— Crescit indulgent sibi dirus
hydrops ; and he expects us not to tap him
and reduce him to moderate dimensions, but
to foster his morbid growth. The appetite has
grown upon Lim till he has become indifferent to
the opinion of the world, just as many a man is
proud of weighing twenty-five stone, or of having
committed a more than usual number of extravagant
follies. His friends write to him from Ireland, to
ask him why he makes such an ass of himself, and
he reads the letter in ihe house, in face of a friendly
protest. He would rather be thought an ass than
not be thought of at all. Though it was evident
last night that the house was of the same opinion
as Mr. Scully's correspondent, he was delighted,
even on these terms, to secure, by his frank admis-
sion, the attention of the house, and to possess
even so temporary a hold upon its interest. This is
an ambition so rare on this side the Channel that
we are not accustomed to further it ' • and, even
when a gentleman is ready to sacrifice himself for
the amusement of his country, we do not find it
easy to assist with the requisite grace.
There are few of our readers who will not be sur-
prised to hear that Mr. Scully has been inadequately
reported. They will be rather disposed to suspect
that this gentleman has some extraordinary interest
at work to procure the frequent recurrence of his
name and to keep him well up before the world.
Indeed, there is hardly any name which, in pro-
portion to its actual weight, is so prominent and so
familiar. It would puzzle most people to remem-
ber what Mr. Scully ever said, or was likely to
say ; or what his arguments were upon such an
occasion, what line he took, and how he contri-
buted to the result ; but that he stood up and
opened his mouth and was at no loss for words and
ideas on any occasion whatever is one of the "com-
mon things" which everybody knows. This, of
course, Mr. Scully owes to the much maligned press,
while the absence of a definite impression he owes to
himself. He pleads the example of Lord Palmerston
for the use of Attic salt to season dry sense, and to
amuse the House while instructing and guiding
it. He has attempted to do the same, and he now
complains that the papers do not report his Attic
salt, and that they let his speeches go to the
world bare and unadorned. The " Attic salt"
we leave in the hands of the reporters, who
are not generally insensible to that condiment
when they find it. But since Mr. Scully pro-
fesses to have taken Lord Palmerston for his
model, and is annoyed to find he does not com-
mand the same space and notice, we must remind
him that it is about as difficult to follow a good
example as it is to set one. If, too, he follows Lord
Palmerston as to his style, or wishes to do so, per-
haps he may not disdain to take that model for the
substance of his speeches. Lord Palmerston does
not talk by the hour, with his eye on the Block
face. Lord Palmerston does not make a dozen
speeches in a night simply for the purpose of keep-
ing himself before the eyes of the world. Lord
Palmerston does rof say a word more than is ne-
cessary for his purpose. It Mr. Scully will only
do the same he will soon find that he is adequately
reported, and that he stands higher in the good
opinion of his candid friends across the Channel.—
Times.

WOOL FAlRS.—Three large and important wool
fairs have just taken place in Berkshire. The first was on
Monday, at Abingdon ; the. second at Didcot, on Tuesday ;
and the third at East limey, yesterday. Since last year
the trade has undergone such a change that staplers evince
unusual caution in making purchases, and at each of these
fairs the transactions were far from being brisk. The
largest supply was at East Ilsley, it being the very centre
of an extensive sheep feeding district. A fair number of
sales were reported to have taken place, and the prices were
generally as follow :—G teg teg wool, 37e to 37s 6d ; ewe
wool, 355 to 363; and mixed, one .third teg, 34s to 355.
There was a large and respectable attendance at the dinner,
in the rectory house at East Dsley; the usual loyal toasts
were given, and the health of Mr. Benyon, M.P., was well
received. The hon. gentleman replied to the toast in a brief
but appropriate speech. The prices quoted above were ob-
tained ty flock-masters at Abingdon and Didcot fairs.

WHAT LADIES' GLOVES AND JELLIES ARE MADE
oP.—How dashed with bitterness are all sublunary things I
Alas the smaller kind of ladies' so-called kid-gloves are
made chiefly out of rat-skins. The smaller the hand the
more ratty the inference ! Parchment trimmings contribute
in no small degree to the stock of a London pastry- cook's
jelly-pot. It is said that an hiatus exists in the parchment
documents of the Patent-office ; a boy on the establishment
having surreptitiously taken documents away and sold them
to the confectioners. Very good jelly (scientifically speak-
ing) can be manufactured out of parchment ; but any per-
son amenable to sentiment in the slightest degree would
spare his stomach some qualms by not inspecting the manu-
facture of parchment. Absolutely and rationally there is
nothing repulsive in the idea of manufacturing ivory dust
into jelly; but how a fair creature—engaged in soft dalli-
ance with a jelly—would pout and make wry faces, and
thrust the jelly from her, if told (which is the fact) that
most of the ivory dust in question is purchased of the
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