The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlB,—You were so kind as to give publicity to a
letter we addressed to you on the termination of our
labours "In remembrance of the late Mr. Jerrold,"
making known their result.
Mr. Jerrold's eldest son thereupon gave to a letter
of his own what publicity he could obtain for it, making
his own representation of his late father's affairs.

We kneCv our forbearing and delicate reference to
them (forced upon us by exaggerations with which we
had been repeatedly met, and which the son had never
contradicted) to be perfectly accurate, and we knew his
acoount of them to be highly incorrect. We are ex-
tremely sorry to be obliged to produce the proof of this •
but it is necessary to the clearance of our own good
faith, and that of the gentlemen associated with us.
We have before us, under date the 2d of this present
month, a letter from the solicitor to the late Mr. Jer
cold's estate (a gentleman well known in his profession
—Mr. Ashnrst, of the Old Jewry), in which, after men-
tioning that there is a life assurance of 1,0001,, which is
Mrs. Jerrold's absolutely, and which the estate cannot
claim, be informs the correspnndect to which his com-
munication is addressed, " that he cannot understand
Mr. Blanchard Jerrold's reason for writing this unfortu-
nate letter ;" that he thinks "he and his family ought
to be set right on the matter ;" and that if a certain
claim bs urged of which he has received the particulars,
" the facts and figures show that the estate will be abso-
lutely insolvent."

We quote this letter with its writer's permission, and
we have now done with this subject for ever.
Your faithful servants,
CHARLES DICKENS,
Oct. 6. ARTHUR SMITH.

THE NORTHERN BEE.

How doth the busy Russian Bee
Improve the darkened hour,
And kindly hope it will not see
The fall of England's power.
How skilfully she frames the " sell,"
Forgives Crimean whacks,
And owns JOHN BULL does pretty well
Whate'er he undertakes.
So now, let Russia, with a will,
The works of peace pursue;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For soldier-States to do.
In laying down the Iron Way, "
Be her next century passed,
And then, who knows, the world may say—
" She's civilised at last."
Punch.

MAILS TO THE CAPE OF CAPE OF GOOD Hon.—Th •
fol'owing notice was issued from the General Poet-office
yeeterday, viz. :—An arrangement has been made with
the owners of the steam-vessel Celt, for the conveyance
of mails to the Cape of Good Hope on the 15th lint.
TIIE FITZWILLIAM ESTATES.---It is understood that
the Irish property of the late Earl Fitzwilliam is be-
queathed to Lord Milton, who succeeds to the title ;
Milton Abbey and the Northampton property to the
Hon. George Fitzwilliam ; and the property in the
North Riding and the northern part of the %Vest Riding
of Yorkshire to the Hon. Charles Fitzwilliam.—Man-
cheater Guardian.
BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—The attention
of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our
Paper headed "A Fact for Physiologists," in which the
Nottingham Medical Reform Society propose to send
free to all applicants the Botanic Remedy for Indigee-
tion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by
Professor Webster, of Philadelphia.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE BY THE EXPLOSION OP
STEAM.—Yesterday morning Henry James, a carpenter,
residing at No. 5, Charles-street, Drury-lane, in cleaning
a tin b Atte used by mechanics to hold their tea or
coffee, incautiously placed the vessel on the fire with a
cork in it, thereby allowing the steam to generate. He
was in the act of taking the bottle off the fire, when the
steam forced the cork out, and the boiling liquid flew
into his fare, scalding him in a shocking manner, and it
is feared that he will not recover his sight.
CONFLICT WITH THE MILITARY AT CARRARA.--Tbe
town of Carrara has just bean the scene of a serious die.
turbance. It appears that, at the theatre, on the evening
of the 27th, some of the people in the pit had a quarrel
with a non-commissioned officer of dragoons ; and that
from words they came to blows, ending in a slight wound
tuff cted on the officer. On the following day nine men,
who did not seem to be the same as those in the theatre,
unexpectedly attacked some dragoons in the street, killed
a sereant and a corporal, and then ran away. Five of
these assassins succeeded in making their escape over the
frontier, but were arrested by the Piedmontese authori-
tiee, and imprisoned at Sarzena, where they now are.
They are stated to be workmen of the marble quarricen
JOLLY JURYMEN.—The hotel bill of the jury impac-
nelled in the recent trial of Gentles and Reid at the Stir-
ling Circuit Court. of Justiciary was within a. trifle of 701
TGli tact may help to dispel the popular bald that Jury-
men, during the progress of a trial, are doomed to sub-
set on such commonplace fare as bread and water. Consi-
dering the number of days over which the trial extended,
perhaps the score run up at the Golden Lion is not very
unreasonable —which is more than can be said for a jury
at Aberdeen, who run up a bill of 171. between the hours
of 7 in the evening and 10 of the marring following—or
of a jury at Inverness, whose bill for toddy alone, for one
night, was 81 —Alloa Advertiser.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 5 per mine premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25 20 per 11. snerling. Oa comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 per
ounce fcr standard gold it appears that girl I is near:y
4-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advice:; from Hemburg the price of gold is 4241 per
mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4 per
11. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint prose
is therefore about 3 10the per cent. dearer in Hamburg
than in London. Tue course of exchange at New York
on London for bills at GO days' sight is about 1071 par
cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between
the two countries!, shows that the exchange is against
Eeglend ; but, after making allowance for charges of
transport and difference of intereet, the present rate
leaves no profit on the transmission of gold either way
between the two countries.
EXPENSE OP THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSION IN BEL-
FAST.—Tee c,st of the line commission of inquiry wall
amount to a bandeorne little total, taken at the most
moderate estimate. The two commis.ionere, at five
guineas each per day, forsixteen sitting days, will net
160 guineas-168/ ; a gevernment reporter, et two
ignuitrrivaanssepretbr
nday,gi i 38
notes, 3/. 12i , and for, say, twenty-five days hi
Purcell and Falknsr), thrse9el,glu(i)l2';e;astweaocchopuenrsedia(ys4,lelrl.
16 ; two attorneys (Slesere. O'lt seise arid Rea), at tee
sense fi;uro, 106/. 10e. Total, 4551. 12s, This expense
will, of course, be pa'd by Government. Oa the town
wlt fall, however, half the expellee of the additional
coastabulary drafted to Belfast to suppress riots that bad
no longer an existence, and who are to be billetted upon
U 4, we suppose, until the 12th July comes round age n.
—Banner of Ulster.

Coutous DISCOVICRY. —As a workman 'WAR a few
days ago employed in repairing the roof of an old
houe at Nouailleß, near Couzeix (Haut-Vienne), he
di c ivered, concealed on the upper rafters, a smal
c veered copper vessel, which contained a collec-
tion of very curious coins. There are among them
is-one silver pieces of Louis XI, bearing the (late of
1473, teetons and francs of Charles IX and Henri 111,
cr,wns of Henri IV, of 1588, of Louis XIII, fr.7m
1623 to 1642, testans of Avignon with the P.' fligy
Urbain VIII, and from 250 to 260 copper liards of
Pops Urbain VIII, Louis XIII, Gaston of Orlear‘s.
the Prince de Bourbon-Conti, Latour d'Auvergne, the
Prince of o,.auge' Sully, Prince Henrichemont, Marie
de Montpensier, Duke de Bouillon, &c. The whole
were wrapped up in paper and hits of liner. It is
thought that this little treasure must have belonged
to some chi woman, either a miser or a beggar, but
the of l people of the place are of opinion that it be-
longed to a relijieuse, whose order formerly had a
chapel at NJuaides.

TESTIMONIAL TO J. B. MARWJOD, ESQ —1 large
st3.thering of the employes of the Great WeAern Railway
Company met io the reading-room of the Literary Intp.i-
t•Jtion, Pallington t*rininti., on Monday, the sth itnt.,
to bid farawell to Mr. J. B. Marwood, who has recent; y
been app)inted to the chief accountantsliip of the 13ri,-
tot and Ex3ter Railway. Mr. Marwood was many
years in tha service of the Great Wratern Railway C. L--
pany, an 1 by his own unaided but indefatigable ex,r-
tions raised himself to the office of chief clerk in tn€
accountant's office, from whence he has lately bcest
el?cteri to the position he now fills. Immediately ors
its being known that Mr. Harwood was ab gut to resign
his Great Western appointment, his friends and col.-
leNues resoled to present him with a testimonial of
their respect for his talents and character, and a liberal
subscription having been entered into, a handsome mil:
ver tea end coffee service, with a massive salver, bearing
an appropriate inscription, were manufactured by
Messrs. Hancock, of Brutonditreet.

FonGERIES AT LYoNS.—The Courrier de Lyon contaims
the following : —" We have to announce the err _at of: a
rich landed proprietor, named Dupont, formerly a grocer
in this city, for uttering forged notes. His name w.as
some time ago before the public by a lawsuit which he
iostituted agair:st the company formed to build the Roe
Iroper'ale here, from whom, in the et,d, he obtained an
indemnity of 125,000 fr. The bank notes forged are alI
for 500ir., and the mode adopted by him for putting
them into circulation was most curious, keepers of
brothels being generally the victims. At length one
of these persons, being more acute :than the others
from whom he had succeeded in obtaining change
for his notes, detected the counterfeit and gave in-
formation to the police, which led to his arrest. S
well were the notes executed, tbat one of them was
received as a deposit by a clerk at the Savings' Bank,
but detected later in the day by another •c!erlr. On
being arrested by the police at his residence, a handsome
house, his own property, in the Citd Napoleon, a slumber
of other notes besides those found on him were disco-
vered concealed in different places. On being examined
by the commissary of police, he at first said that all the
notes had been given him by a Pole, who died. in the
hospital at Lyons in 1852 ; but the falsehood of th is story
being clearly proved by some of the notes healing the
date of 1854, he found that further denial of his guilt was
useless, and he requested to be again taken to his house,
where he pointed out a concealed piaCa that was so made
that its disc every would otherwise have been impossible,
and w here plates were found for manufacturing the no.
as well as a bundle of notes amounting to 490,000 f. The
amount of notes which he has put into circulation is not
exactly known. It appears that Dupont at fret paid a
Workman 51. a-day for printing them, but the man after.
wards demanded and received 50f. a•week. The wife of
Dupont had been arrested."