The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-04 00:00:00

The new judge, Mr. Mellor, was yesterday sworn r T " ,
in before the Lord Chancellor in his lordship's private "
room, at Lincoln's-inn. Mr. Mellor was called to the bar
by the Society of the Inner Temple in June, 1833, and
subsequently joined the Midland Circuit, of which several
years age he became one of the leaders. Mr. Mellor was
recorder of Leicester, and at the last election was chosen to
represent Nottingham in Parliament. Although a good and
consistent Liberal, we believe that the hon. and learned
gentleman owes his promotion to the industry and ability
which have marked his career at the bar. The selection of
Mr. Mellor by the Lord Chancellor has given general satis-
faction to the profession, though not unmingled with regret
at the retirement of Sir Hugh Hill, who only held the office
of Justice of the Queen's Bench for the short space of three
years.
THE :SURREY CANAL MURDER.—A respite was
received yesterday by Mr. Bannister, the governor of
Maidstone Gaol, for George Inkpen, who was cenviated
at the last session of the Central Criminal Court of the
murder of his sweetheart by drowning her in the Surrey
Canal.
DESTRUCTION OF GREETING RECTORY-HOUSE
BY FIRE.—A telegraphic despatch arrived on Monday at
the residence of the Rev. George J. Dupuis, at Eton Col-
lege, one of the fellows, announcing the total destruction by
fire of his rectory-house at Creeting, Needham-market,
Suffolk. The fire was first discovered by the coachman at
five o'clock in the morning, who saw the flames issuing
from the drawing-room. Immolate alarm was given, and
prompt assistance rendered, but the fire spread with such
rapidity that the residence, with the valuable plate, furni-
ture, and effects, was consumel in a few hours. Although
an insurance had been effected on the house and its con-
tents, it will in no way cover the serious loss sustained.
THE SHIP ELIZA OF LIVERPOOL.—A Calais
letter says :—" A three-masted ship, measuring from 400 to
500 tons, was moored last evening at our quays. She is an
English ship called the Eliza, of Liverpool. She was
abandoned at sea, and found by three French fishing boats
14 miles north of the port of Calais, without anybody on
board. She is a magnificent ship, quite new, and would
require a crew of 20 men to navigate her. The abandon-
meat of the ship can only be accounted for by the bad
weather which prevailed on Tuesday last, when she may
have struck on some of the sandbanks in this neighbour..
hood. Her log-book, which was found on board, was
written up to the 26th ult., so that she was not abandoned
previous to that day. No tidings have been heard of the
crew, and it is feared they were drowned, as a
boat was seen by the fishermen near the ship,
and which had capsized. The Eliza came from
London, and was bound for Carthagena and Con-
stantir ople. She is laden with bar iron. The ship is
valued at about £lO,OOO, and her cargo at as much. Ac-
cording to maritime law, the fisherman who brought her
into port have a right to a third of the value of the ship
and cargo. This is a magnificent prize for the fishermen,
who will have thus gained as much in one day as they
could have earned in the course of their lives by catching
fish."

THE CARLISLE MURDER—CLUE TO THE As •
sassnr.—CARLISLE, Tuesday.—Yesterday the adjourned
inquest on Jane Emmerson, the poor aged woman, who for
years had charge of the level crossing of the Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway at Botcherby, and who was found most
brutally murdered on the morning of Friday, the 22d ult.,
was resumed before W. Carrick, k sq., the coroner, and a

jury. Since last meeting of the jury the police have been
anremitting in their exertions to trace the perpetrator of
this foul and horrible deed; and it is believed that a clue
has been obtained which may lead to the apprehension of
the murderer. On Thursday last as a labourer was walk-
ing beside the river Peterell he saw a bundle, which he
opened, and found that it contained a shirt and a pair of
trousers, stained with blood and very dirty. These articles
were handed over to the police, and hopes are entertained of
tracing the owner of them, as they were doubtless the
clothes worn by the murderer on the night, and who has
used this means of disposing of clothes which would be
strong evidence against him. The evidence given before
the coroner was, for the most part, a repetition of what is
already known.
ANOTHER CAB OUTRAGE.—Two men—William
Randall, a cab driver at Leeds, and John Robson, of
Thwaite Mills—were on Monday committed for trial by the
Wakefield magistrates, charged with having attempted to
murder, by drowning in the canal at Thwaite Mills, the
wife of John Wood, a coalmines at Churwell. The story
of the prosecutrix went to show that she had hired
Randall's cab to take her home on Thursday night last,
being too late for the last railway train. The two prisoners
accompanied the cab, but instead of driving to Churwell
took the direction of Thwaite Mills. Robson (hove for a
short distance, and then—having his place supplied on the
box by Rardall—entered the cab, and attempted to crimi-
nally assault the prosecutrix. She resisted, and received in
retaliation two black eyes from blows given by Robson, who
at Thwaite Mills threw her into the canal, and left her to
drown. Such was the statement made by the woman before
the magistrates. Her rescue from the water was proved,
but it was also sworn that she was intoxicated, and that her
statement on being taken out of the water fixed upon Ran-
dall, and not Robson, the act of pushing her into the water.
The defence sought to be established was that herstory was
a fiction, and that she fell into the canal when in a state of
intoxication. She, however, strenuously denied the allega-
tion of drunkenness. The magistrates determined to send
the case for trial, but admitted both prisoners to bail.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF THE FEMALE
f3Loistnix—The Female Blondin gave a perform...o...E 9t.
George's Hall, Stonehouse, on Monday night. The rope
was stretched from the organ loft to the platform, being at
one end about 30ft. high, and at the other 10ft. or 15ft. It
had evidently been put up in haste, and was not all pro-
perly secured. When she had got half way across the first
time she suddenly stopped and loudly called to have the
rope tightened, as it was vibrating strongly. This was done
and she managed to cleverly get to the end, receiving loud
applause. The rope having been further tightened, she
walked back, and all present thought the mise:able exhibi•
tion, which was certainly a disgrace to the town, to be
finished. However, some men were stationed at the side
ropes, which ran through tackling at each window, and
the Female Blondin again prepared to walk, but this it will
be found nearly resulted in her death. In fact, how she
eseaped was a miracle. She stepped on to the platform,
and bandaged her eyes, after which she put a sack over her
head, her arms being at liberty for the purpose of using the
pole. Again she started, everybody beholding her with
terrified looks, in consequence of the slack state of the rope.
When just beyond the chandelier nearest the organ-loft
one of the side ropes suddenly broke, and the rope on which
she was standing actually fell about three feet. A subdued
groan instantly went through the room, as all expected to
see her tumble headlong down. Strange to say, she did not
fall, as she managed to save herself with the balancingpole.
How she got up the remainder of the rope was a mystery ;
we confess that a sickening sensation at the sight prevented
us from seeing. The " enterprising proprietor" and his
assistants instantly rushed to the gallery, where they res •
cued the unfortunate woman from her perilous position.
Upon examination, the rope which broke proved to be to-
tally unfit for the purpose.— Western Morning News.
" THE QUADROON " AND " THE OCTOROON."—
A change has been made in the cast of " The Octoroon,"
which strengthens the play—now running more freely than
at first. A question of Mr. Boucicault's claim to any con-
siderable share in the merit of authorship has arisen, and a
mass of evidence has been placed in our hands against that
claim. This evidence suggests the unpleasant inference
that what Mr. Boucicault put forward at the Adelphi
Theatre as the result of his own experience and observa-
tions in Louisiana is derived in substance and in spirit
from Capt. Mayne Reid's story of " The Quadroon."
4 ' Octoroon," it is urged, is but a colourable alteration of
" Quadroon." Zoe is Aurore, Dora is Eugdnie. The change
introduced int ) the story, by means 6f the poisoning, is not
a happy effort of art. One who knows the life of Loui-
siana assures us that the scenes introduced into " The
Octoroon" originally, or from some other source than " The
Quadroon," are so unlike the real life of that country as to
suggest the idea that Mr. Boucicault has found his origi-
nal on the stage of New Orleans, not in the plantations.
The captain of the Mississippi steamer, we are assured, is
a very gross caricature—the original being as well-dressed,
bred, debonnaire a geritleman as the captain of the Quirinal
or the Alhambra. The French planters of the coast are
not less viilified, we are told, in "The Octoroon." In
dress and manners the real men resemble their countrymen
on the Boulevards and the Rue Rivoli. These points have
an appearance of supporting the charge made against Mr.
Boucicault, that he has adopted without permission or
acknowledgment the work of a literary brother ; but our
readers know that appearances are often extremely mis-
leading, and it would be unjust to condemn Mr. Bouci-
cault until he has had, and neglected, the opportunity of
justifying his acts. As the case now stands before the
public, Captain Mayne Reid appears in the position of
a man of letters who has suffered a literary wrong.
Can Mr. Boucicault show that the wrung is unsubstan-
tial ?
TURNER AND CLAUDE.—It was and is well known
to men living in the early and middle portion of Turner's
professional career, that he did not often sell his oil-pictures;
they were not sought after or appreciated by the aristocracy
or fashionable picture-buyers, with few exceptions, such as
Lord Egremont of Petworth, Lord Yarborough, Sir John
Leicester, and Lord Ellesmere : the cause of which ma 3
be traced and principally attributed to the influence and ab-
sorbing preference given by Sir George Beaumont (au
amateur artist) to the works or pictures of Claude. Whe-
ther there was anything personal or not in this advocacy of
Claude to the exclusion of Turner I know not; but it is cer-
t -tin that Turner was well acquainted with it, and deeply
felt the injustice of Sir George Beaumont's prejudices, as
well as the influence he had in picture society to direct all
taste and to concentrate it on Claude; the painful know-
ledge of these facts gave rise, no doubt, to Turner's be-
queathing two of his best pictures to the nation, on condi-
tion that they were placed side by side with two of Claude's
best pictures, in order that posterity might do him that
justice that either ignorance or something worse denied him
while living; in the same spirit, and in defence of himself
as an artist, did Turner commence his wonderful, beauti-
ful, and highly-estimated work of the "Liber Studiorum, '
as compared with the "Liber Vsritatis" of Claude.—Froin
Thornkry's Life of Turner.

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PARIS, DEC. 4.

The Moniteur of to-day denies the statement
made by some French papers, that the Empress
would go to Nice.

The lifoniteur also announces that the Porte has
communicated to the Powers the firman establish-
ing the legislative union of Moldavia and Walla-
chia for the life of the present Hospodar.

The United States Consul hag communicated to i
the French papers a letter of General Scott, in
which he declares there is no truth in the report
that the Cabinet of Washington had ordered the
seizure of the Southern Commissioners, even if
under the protection of a neutral flag. He is
quite ignorant of the decision of his Government,
but he says it is necessary to preserve good rela-
tions between America and England. " I hope,"
continues General Scott, that " Earl Russell and
Mr. Seward will agree on a solution to the question,
whether the persons who were arrested on board
the Trent were contraband of war or not. If they
were agents of the rebels, it will be difficult to con-
vince even impartial minds that they were less con-
traband of war than rebel soldiers and cannons."
In conclusion, General Scott expresses his con-
viction that a war between America and England
cannot take place without more serious provecations
than those at present given.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a full ac-
count of the opening of the French Senate.
At a quarter past 2 his Excellency M. Troplong,
accompanied by General the Marquis d'Hautpoul,
Grand Referendary, and by the secretaries, &c., took
his seat, and declared the opening of the sitting.
An Imperial edict was then read, announcing the
opening of the sittings of the Senate.

The nomination of three new Senators was then
proclaimed. The new Senators are M. le Vicomte
de Lagueronniere, General Montauban (commander
of the French troops in China), and M. de Forcade.
An Imperial decree was then read to the follow-
ing effect :

" The project of a Senatus Consultum deliberated
upon in a Council of State, modifying the 4th and
12th Articles of the Senatus Consultum of the 25th of
December, 1852, is now to be read to the Senate!'
M. Baroche then read the project of the Senatus
Consultum, which we published in our second edi-

tion yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes also an expose des motifs
explaining why Articles 4 and 12 of the Senatus
Consultum of the 25th of December, 1852, are to be
modified.

GENOA, DEC. 3.

Garibaldi, in reply to an address from the Italian
inhabitants of the Tyrol, said that he hoped for the
early deliverance of Italy, for which the people
should prepare.

Garibaldi will not go to Turin, but will return to
morrow to Caprera.

NAPLES, DEC. 3.

The Irpino of to-day announces that 700 brigands
have been surrounded by the Royal troops at
Romagnano, in the Principato Citra.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived at Mar•
seilles at 8 a.m. this day.
The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, 10 A.M.

The ship Lady Franklin, Captain Jordan, 1,280
tons, from London, in ballast, for New York, be•
longing to Messrs S. Thompson, and Nephew, of
that city, anchored in the Sound yesterday, osten-
sibly to inquire the whereabouts of att. Confederate
war steamship Nashville. At midnight a fire broke
out in her forehold, and she was removed to Jenny
Cliff Day, and at this than .ffuito arc making to
scuttle her. Several holes have been cut in her port.
side and bow, and the Revenue cutter Hamilton has
fired three six-pouniers into her. Sling chains are
fitted, At high tide the water is eight fathoms
deep. The floating fire-engines have, up to 10
o'clock, kept the fire between decks.
As the Lady Franklin fills she has a strong list
to starboard, It is strongly suspected that the ship
was fired purposely by the crew, some of whom are
alleged to be Southerners. Several were sent yes-
terday into the fore peak, where there is a quantity
of dunage and lumber, and eight absconded early
this morning. The spirit room has been broken
into, and one man, in a state of intoxication, was
dragged from his berth just in time to prevent him
from being suffocated.

FRAN CE.
La Patric has the following under the head of
" Latest Intelligence" :
"We learn from recent advices by sea that the
steam frigate San Jacinto had already, early in
November, searched the French vessel Jules-et-
Marie, and two other foreign vessels. The first of
those vessels was a Danish trader called the Jut-
land ; she was on her way from the Havannah to
Santa Cruz ; the other was a Portuguese vessel.
These facts have some importance, because they
prove that the Cabinet at Washington fancies it has
the power to exercise the right of search to its full
extent."

BOURSE, DEC. 3.—The arrival of the English
funds with a decline has had a rather depressing
effect on this market, and Stock having been offered,
prices are lower than yesterday. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 69f 15c. Railways also heavy,
and many of the lines rather lower.
The following are the last quotations
per per Cents... 95 10 Credit Fancier llBO
Do end month.... 95 20 Belgian 41.. lOO
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 171 ' Roman .. . 71
Bank Shares 2975 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 735 ' Spanish Threes —
Do. Account 737 50 ;Homo Debt .. —