The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

OUR INDIAN DIFFICULTY AND THE POLICY, INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.
FRENCH PRESS.

It, is not very unusual, says the Paris correspon-
dent of the Times (second edition), for persons of ,
a sanguine and imaginative temperament to
Isvell upon an hypothesis until they fancy it
proved, and proceed to reason upon it as ear-
nestly as if it were an established and incontro-
vertible fact. An instance .of this sort has
lately occurred in the cage 'of a portion of the
French press, which, while dOn,idering, and per-
haps exaggerating, the extiirtisof our Indi in difficu'-
t:e3, and at the same timeciiiiderrating our means
of surmounting them, has came to the hasty con-
clusion that, sooner or later, we shall have to seek
aid from France, and has even got so far as tri
speculate on the terms upon which it may be
granted. On the part of the Legitimist papers there
was nothing astonishing in this unfriendly haste to
profit by a neighbiur's misfortunes to drive a good
bargain, but it may well excite surprise when the
friendly Siecle out-Ilsrads our habitual foes in its
desire to make of England's difficulty France's
opportunity. The most rabid of our opponents,
when anticipating, without the slightest grounds,
an application from England for succour, stipulated
terms usurious enough, and at one stroke of its
catholic quill, swept us out of the Mediterranean ;
but at least it gave us something in return for
Malta, Gibraltar, and the rest. A French' army
was to go and re-establish us in our Oriental
possessions. oN course we felt a proper amount
of gratitude. We by no means underrate the
value of the proffered aid, nor doubt that in Hin-
dostan, as in the Crimea, and wherever they have
fought, the French would prove themselvesmost gal-
lant and useful sAdiers. But there is such a thing as
waiting till you are asked, and of this we 'may re-
mind those who appear to forget the history of the
present century, and the power and resources dis-
ployed by Great Britain when opposed to Europe
combined against her by one master-mind and
seemingly resistless hand. They may be quite
sure that the British nation, since then enormously
increased in numbers and wealth, has lost none of
its energy or patriotiim, and that by the exertion
of these it is well able, without seeking foreign
assistance, to vanquish even greater difficult.e.
than the very serious ones that have arisen in the
East.

THAMES.

THE POPLAR BOARD OF WORKS.—In this case the
complainants were the Board of Works for Poplar,
which sought to recover a sum of 421 is. 6d. from
Messr4. Wedrel and Knight, highly respectable licensed
victual!ers' Millwall, and the proprietors of the Iron-
monger's Arms, that which were costs arising from
works done by the Board, for repairing and restoring a
~ea, wall, which bad been cut through by the defendants,
who were building several homes adjoining. The ques-
tion resolved itself into one of jurisdiction.
Mr. Yardley, who bad given a most patient hearing to
the case, and which had been several times adjourned,
wished the case to be stlibmit,ted to a superior court.
Mr. Morris, clerk to the Board, contended that the
magistrate bad jurisdiction; and Mr. Beck, solicitor
for the Ironmonger's Company, on whose estate the
wall was, asserted that the Metropolitan Commissioners
were the parties who alone had jurisdiction.
After bearing the arguments of the solicitors on both
siles,
Mr. Yardley took down the main points in the case,
for the purpose of submitting them to the Court el
Queen's Bench, observing that it was a case of mach
importance to all hawkers. He would give ever!
facility to the case being decided.
Mr. Morris remarked he should have to serve a
I notice upon him, Mr. Yardley, if be dismissed the

summons.
Mr. Yardley replied that he should do so, and
asked what was the amount of coot claimed by the
Board.

Mr. Morris replied 421. Ist 61
Mr. Beck replied that the cost included legal expense!
and counsels fees which he thought the Biard ought not
to claim. The actual cost was 261. 193. Bd.
Mr. Yardley said he should only allow that amount•
Mr. Beck then asked for costs for the defendant wh;ch,
were allowed.
The parties then left the court.