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

TO THE BDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—You were so kind as to give publicity to a i
letter we addressed to you on the termination of our
labours "In remembrance of the late Mr. Jerrold,"
making known their result. 1
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 knew 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
rold's estate (a gentleman well known in his profession
—Mr. Ashuret, of the Old Jewry), in which, after men
tioning that there is a life assurance of 1,0001., which it,
Nlrs. Jerrold'a absolutely, and which the estate cannot
claim, he informs the correspondent 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
+o be set right on the matter ;" and that if a eertair
claim be 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 HOPE.—The
following notice was issued from the General Post-office
ye. terday, 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 inst.
THE 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 West Riding
of Yorkshire to the Hon. Charles Fitz william.—Mart-
chester 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 Indiges-
tion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by
Professor Webster, of Philadelphia.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE BY THE EXPLOSION OF
STealt.—Yesterday morning Henry James, a carpenter,
residing at N 0.5, Charles-street, Drury-lane, in cleaning
a tin b ,ttle use.' by mechanic; to hold their tea or
coffee, incautiously placed the vassal on the firs with e
cork in it, thereby allowing the steam to generate. Ha
was in the act of taking, the bottle off the fire, when the
steam forced the cork out, and the boiling liquid flee!
into his fele, scalding him in a shocking manner, and it
is feared that he will not recover his sight.
CONFLICT WITH THE MILITARY AT CARRARA.-11
town of Carrara has ju-t been the scene of a serious die-
turhance. It appears that, at the theatre, on the evenirer
of the 27th, some of the people in the pit had a quarrel
with a non-commissioned officer of dragoons ; and the t
from words they carne to blows, endiug in a slight wound
jell c'ed on the officer. On the following day nine rner,
who did not seem to ha the same as those in the theatre,
ueexpectedly attacked some dragoons in the street. killed
a sergeant and a carporal, and then ran away. Five of
these aseasAns succeeded in making their escape over tl
frontier, but were arrested by the Piedmontese authori-
ties, and imprisoned at Sarzens, where they now are.
They are stated to be workmen of the marble quarcie,.
JOLLY JunYmax.—The hotel bill of the jury inapst,-
nelled in the recant trial of Gent'es and Reid at the S ir-
ling Circuit Court of Justiciary was within a trifle of 701
Trite fact may help to dispel the popular belief that jury-
men, during the progress of a trial, are doomed to sub-
sist on such commonplace faro 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
unreasonalle —which is more than can be said for a jury
at Aberdeen, who run up a hill of 171. between the hours
of 7 in the evening and 10 of the morning
of a jury at Inverness, whose bill for teddy alone, for one
night, was 81 —Alloa Advertiser.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 5 per male premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.20 per 11. sterling. Oa comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 per
ounce for standard gold it appears that gold is nearly
4-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. Ey
advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424; per
mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4 per
1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mkt price
is therefore about 3 10the per cent, dearer in Haniburg
than in London. Toe course of exchange at New York
on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 107 per
cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between
the two countries, shows that the exchange is agidrist
England ; but, after making allowance for charger' of
transport and difference of interest, the present rate
leaves no profit on the transmission of gold either way
between the two countries,
EXPENSE OF THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSION' IN BEI.-
FAST.—TIe esn.t of the late.counni,..sion of inquiry will
amount to a handsome little total, taken at the most
moderate estimate. The two commissioners, at five.
guineas each per day, for sixteen sitting days, will net
160 guineas-1631. ; a government reporter, at two
guineas per day, 331. 12s , and for, say, twenty-five days
io transcribing his notes, 521. 10s. ; two counsel (Messrs.
Purcell and Falkner), three guineas each per day, 1001.
164. ; two attorneys Messrs. O'Rorke and lIsa), at tno
same figure, 1061. 16s. Total, 4551. 12e. This expense
will, of course, be pad by Government. Oa the town
wit fall, however, half the expense of the addition d
constabulary drafted to Belfast to suppress riots that had
no longer an existence,and who are to be billettoii upon
us, we suppose. until the 12th July cmaea round again.
—Banner of Ulster.
Cuaious thscovEay. —As a workman was a few
days ago employed in repairing the roof of an elf]
houe at Nouailles, near COUZiX (Haut-Vienne), tie
iiii,cwered, concealed on the upper rafters, a email
c osered copper vessel, which contained a collec-
tMa of very curious coins. There are among thern
some silver pieces of Louis XI, bearing the Fate of
1473, testons and francs of Charles IX and Henri 111,
crowns of Henri IV, of 1583, of Louis XIII, from
1623 to 1642, teatons of Avignon with the effigy of
Urbain VIII, and from 250 to 260 copper bards of
Pope Urbain VIII, Louis XIII, Gaston of Orleans,
the Prince de Bourbon-Conti, Latour d'Auvergne, the
Prince of 0-auge, Sully, Prince Henrichemont, Marie
du Montpensier, Duke de Bouillon, &c. The whai
were wrapped up in paper,and hits of linen. It is
thought that this little treasure must have belonged
to some old woman, either a miser or a beggar, but
the oil people of the place are of opinion that it be-
longed to a religieuse, whose order formerly had a
chapel at Nouaides.

TESTIMONIAL TO J. B. MAnWOOD, ESQ —A, large
;gathering of the employes of the Great Western Railway
Campany met in the reading-room of the Literary insti-
tution, Paddington terminus, on Monday, the sth
to bid farewell to Mr. J. B. Harwood, who has recently
been appointed to the chief accountantship of the Br :s•
tot and Exeter Railway. Mr. Marwood was many
years in the service of the Great Western Rail aay Colo-
pany, and by his own unaided but indefatigable exer-
tions raised hi,risalf to the office of chief clerk in the
accountant's office, from whence he has lately been
elected to the position he now fills. Immediately on
its being known that Mr. Marwood was ablut to resiwi
his Great Western appointment, his friends ar:d col-
leNues resolved to present bim with a testimonial of
their respect for his talents and character, and a fiber a
subscription having been entered into, a handsome sil-
ver tea and coffee service, with a massive salver, loaar:

an appropriate inscription, were manufactured by
Messrs. Hancock, of Bruton•street.
FoRGEILIES AT Lyons.—The Courrier de Lyon contains
the following : -" We have to announce the err at. of
rich landed proprietor, named Dupont, formerly a grocer
in this city, for uttering forged notes. His name was
same time ago before the public by a lawsuit which be
instituted against the company formed to build the Rue
Impersale here, from whom, in the eed, he obtained an
indemnity of 125,000 fr. The bank notes forged are all
for 500;r., and the mode adopted by him for putti-ig
them into circulation was most curious, keepers of
brothels beirg generally the victims. At length one
of these persons, being more acute :than the oth,:rs
from whom he bad succeeded in obtaining chat 4e
br his notes, detected the counterfeit and gave In-
formation to the police, which lad to his arrest. S.
well were the notes executed, that one of them \vas
received as a depo3it by a clerk at the Savings' Bank,
but detected later in the day by another clerk. On

being arrested by the police at hi-t residence, a bandeorne
house, his own property, in the Cit 4 Napoleon, a number
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 thisvtcry
being clearly proved by some of the notes bearing the
date of 1854, he found that further denial of his guilt IN, as
useless, and he requested to be again taken to his house,
where be pointed cut a concealed prace that was so made
ly
that its disc 'very would otherwise have been impossible,
and where plates were fJund for manufacturing the no t,;.,
as well as a bundle cf notes amounting to 4907000 f. Tnes
atnotmt of notes which he has put into circulation .0
net
exlet
known. It appears that Dupont at first paid a
workman sf. a-day for printing them, but the man after-
wards demanded and received 50E. a-week. The wife of
Dupont had been arrested."