The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, IVIARC 8, 1861.

ATARRIAGE LAW REFORM
LTA_ ASSOCIATION, instituted for the exclusive object of
promoting the passing of an Act to render lawful marriage
with a deceased wife's sister.
Offices —No. 21, PARLIAMENT-STREET, S.W., London.
JOSEPH STANSBURY, M.A., Hon. Sec.

THAMES EMBANKMENT COMMISSION,
2, VICTORIA-STREET, S.V.,
6TH MARCH, 1881.

Parties desirous of submitting Plans for Embanking the
River Thames, within the Metropolis, which will provide
with the greatest efficiency and economy lor the relief of the
most crowded streets, tend to the improvement of the navi-
gation, and afford an opportunity of making the Low Level
Sewer without disturbing Fleet-street and the
_Strand, are
requested to forward them WITHOUT DELAY.
By order.
HENRY KLNGSCOTE, Secretary.

OUDE RAILWAY COMPANY.--At the
THIRD GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders
of the Oude Railway Company held at the LONDON
TAVERN, on THURSDAY, 7th March, the following reso-
lutions were passed :
Ist: Proposed by Sir MACDONALD STEPHENSON, Chair-
man, seconded by JOHN C. MARSHMAN, Esq., Deputy Chair-
man, and carried unanimously :
" That the report and accounts be approved and adopted."
2d. Proposed by J. W. DEACON, Esq., seconded by Captain
HENDERSON, and carried unanimously :
"That the sum of £11,083 15s. be applied to the repayment
of five shillings per share upon the Scrip and Shares of the
Company."
_ _

3. Proposed by G. G. MACPHERSON, Esq., seconded by J.
ALLAN, Esq., and carried unanimously:
" That the thanks of the shareholders are due to the Direc-
tors of this Company for their exertions, and that of the
amount now at the disposal of this meeting the sum of £630
be offered to them as an acknowledgment of their services for
two years and a half, from the formation of the Company to
the middle of 1859, and from the spring of 1860 to the present
time."

4. Proposed by J. CORTHORN, Esq. ; seconded by J. FRANK-
LIN, Esq., and carried unanimously:
" That the balance be applied, in the discretion of.the Di-
rectors, to the maintenance of the Company on a moderate
scale of expenditure (but not to exceed the amount in hand),
and that the Directors be requested to communicate with the
Local Committee which has been formed in Oude, and tecon-
tinue their negotiations with the Government for carrying
out the original object of the Company, so soon as the more
advanced state of the principal trunk lines and the improved
condition of the Money Market shall admit of it."
6. Proposed by the CHAIRMAN, seconded by the DEPUTY-
CHAIRMAN, and carried unanimously :
"That the cordial thanks of the shareholders be conveyed
to Mr. Charles Freshfield for the valuable services rendered
by him to the cause of Indian railways."
An unanimous vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated
the proceedings. CHARLES TWIGG, Secretary.
Oude Railway Company, 8, Moorgate-street.

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March 2.

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THE NAVY.

The Dolphin 3-gun brigantine, attached to the fleet of
sailing vessels in ordinary in the Medway, at Chatham, is
ordered to be given over to the Commissioners of Customs,
to be used as a watch vessel in connection with the Coast-
guard
service.
The screw steam gunboat Penguin, 5, Lieut.-Commander
M'Hardy, which left Plymouth Sound at 6 p m. on Monday
evening, in order to join her consort, the screw steam frigate
Narcissus, 51, Capt. Risk, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir B.
Walker, experienced light winds at first, but on Tuseday
had very heavy weather from W. and W.N.W. She shipped
several seas, and ene of her bowports was washed in, and it
was determined to wear ship for Plymouth. At 3 o'clock
on Wednesday afternoon steam was got up, and she entered
the Sound at half-past 8 yesterday (Thursday) morning.
In lat. 49 46 N., long. 3 40 W., 20 miles off the land, on
Tuesday evening, at half-past 8 o'clock, the Penguin sighted
to windward a large frigate steaming north, with what
appeared to be an admiral's flag, blue, at the mizen. She was
supposed to be the Narcissus, but was too far off to signal.
It has been determined by the authorities at Plymouth to
have new cylinders put on board the screw steam troopship
Himalaya, Capt. John Seccombe. This determination will
cause a considerable delay in the conveyance of a large
detachment of Royal Artillery, which has been some time
waiting in Plymouth Citadel for transport to Woolwich.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. John J. Gregory, to the Edinburgh;
W. H. Hall, midshipman, to the Princess Royal ; Henry
J. Domville, staff-surg., additional, to the Formidable, for
service in the Mariner, at Deal ; Dr. Joseph Coulter, surg.,
to the Calypso ; Dr. J. Breakey, assist.-surg., to the For-
midable ; David Wilson, assist.-surg., to Plymouth Hospi-
tal ; John G. O'Connell, second master, to the Nile, for the
Nimble ; Thomas A. Clarke, first class assist.-engineer, to
the Procris; Thomas Rees, second class assist...engineer,
to the Cockatrice; James G. Barrow; second class assist.-
engineer, to the Asia, for charge of the Rose; Charles
Ware, third class assist.-engineer, to the Procris; Robert
H. Dobney, acting second class assist.-engineer, to the
Cockatrice ; Joseph_ Stocker, acting third class assist.-
engineer, to the Procris ; and James Wood, acting third
class assist.-engineer, to the Cockatrice.

MR. SPURGEON'S METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE'
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have [lssued a circular informing their friends and the
public that it is now nearly completed. The amount re-
quired has been obtained with the exception of about
£3,000, which sum it is believed will be raised by means of
a bazaar, and contributions given at the opening meetings.
These preliminary proceedings will commence on Monday,
the 18th inst , at seven o'clock in the morning, by a prayer
meeting—the bazaar will commence on the following day,
and be continued throughout the week; and meetings,
sermons, lectures, &c., will take place almost daily (Sun •
days ,exceptect) during a month. No consideration will, it
is said, induce Mr. Spurgeon to allow the building to be
used on a Sunday until the whole of the liabilities are dis-
charged. The proceeds of the collections after payment of
contracted liabilities, will be needed for the completion of
the front boundaries, the fitting up of the schools, furnish-
ing the students' class-rooms, and other works which the
committee have not as yet commenced. They have left
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coming rather than get into debt, but they are sanguine
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LORD BACON v. DR. TEMPLE AND OTHERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Templeand the other surviving contributors
to the " Essays and Reviews" may perhaps deem " Thy
Student's Prayer," though from the pen of so great a masa
as Lord Bacon, to be entirely superseded by the progres-
,sion and advancement of modern enlightenment, but this
production of th 3 great philosopher, recognising, as it does,.
in the most striking manner, the supremacy, not of "con-
science," but of the "Divine oracles," and anticipatively
providing against the great-danger of increased "natural
light " being promotive, not of intelligent reverence towards
the "Divine mysteries," but rather of "incredulity an&
intellectual night," will, I doubt not, be considered by many'
and by you, sir, also, as being peculiarly applicable to the
present age, and by no means antiquated or obsolete. I
therefore transcrile the prayer from Lord Bacon's works,
I am, sir, your constant reader,

A BARRISTER.
Old-square, Lincoln's-inn, March 4.

" THE STUDENT'S PRAYER.

" To God the Father, God the Word, Ood the Spirit, v 0
pour forth most humble and hearty supplications, that He)
remembering the calamities of mankind, and the pilgrimaget
of this our life, in w'aich we Wear out days few and evil,.
would please to oper, unto us new refreshments out of the.
fountains of His goodness, for the alleviation of our miseries.,
This also we most humbly and earnestly beg, that human
things may not prejudice such as are divine; neither that
from the unlocking of the gates, of sense, and the kindling
of a greater natural light, anything of incredulity, or intel—
lectual night, may arise in.! ur minds towards Divine mys—
teries. Brit rather thakiir minds being thoroughly cleanse
and purged icom fancy and vanities, and yet subject an&
perfectly given up to the Divine oracles, there may be given!
unto faith the things that are faith's. Amen."

TILE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE..

DUBLIN, THURSDAY.

A preliminary meeting of some friends and ad-
mirers of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton was held yester-
day " for the purpose of considering the best mean s
of giving expression to the public feelings of sym-
pathy for her during the late trial ; and it wale
unanimously resolved that a committee should be ap-
pointed for the purpose of collecting and receiving-
subscriptions to assist in defraying the vast expensee4
likely to be required for future litigation." In.
connexion with this case Professor Jukes has pub-•
lished aletter in this morning's paper contradicting-
some false rumours in reference to Mrs. Forbes..
This lady's letter, which is given by the Professor,,
her late husband's particular friend, will be read
with interest. Mr. Jukes writes :

" My colleague, Edward Forbes ,was married on the•
31st of August, 1848, to Emily Marianne Ashworth,
daughter of the late General Sir Charles Ashworth ;
and I made her acquaintance a fortnight afterwards
at Llangollen, which was just then the headquar
ters of the Geological Survey in North Wales. Miss
Ashworth was entitled, under her father's will, to
a property, half the income of which she then
enjoyed, and the other half will come to her on the
death of her mother, Lady Ashworth.
" As Forbes's income was mainly derived from
his scanty pay on the Geologieal Survey, her friends
wisely made it a preliminary to their consent to
the marriage that he should insure his life for
£3,000, which, very shortly after his marriage, was
raised to £4,000. _ _

" In the beginning of the year 1854 Forbes
resigned his connexion with the Geological Survey
on his appointment to the Chair of Natural History
in Edinburgh, and he died, alas ! on November,
the 18th, 1854, leaving two children, a son and a
daughter.
" The half of Mrs. Forbes's share of the Ashworth
property, and the £4,000 are secured to these two
children on their mother's death, the whole capital
of both kinds being strictly settled and in the hands
of trustees.
" After Forbes's death our intercourse with her
was chiefly by letter, and in June, 1858, we received
one announcing her intended marriage with Major
Yelverton. This letter is written in all the playful,
careless confidence of ladies' correspondence, but I
venture to quote from it one or twe passages :

" 1, Randolph-cliff, June 15.
" Dearest Mrs. Jukes,—Consider all apologies as made
for not writing sooner,—l am so busy,—up to my eyes in
letters, and law, and botheration ; and I suppose I must
tell you ; but—. lam going to make a fool of myself in
`Weald Yel;erT6t, +" 1".'41"
"'Now, 1 hope you and Mr. Jukes will not hate me for
it, but I cannot live alone, and it does not at all follow that,
because the present is unbearable, the past is forgotten. I
have not had the courage to tell a soul except my own
family, but I must tell you. . . . It is to be very soon,
—this month,—there is no use in dawdling,—l am afraid
of myself, and there is nothing to wait for, so it is to be
soon and very quiet, no fuss and no finery, just his brother
and mine, and his father and my mother. How people will
abuse mel I dread it. . . . The Allmans,t of course,
know because she has been about me all the time, and has
seen a great deal of him.'
" She has since informed me that when she first
consented to marry Major Yelverton (about May
12th or 14th) she fixed September for the wedding,
but on hearing from her only brother that he was
going abroad with his wife early in July, and
could only come to Scotland during the last week
in June, and also hearing that the end of June was
the most convenient time for Major Yelverton's
brother to come to Scotland, she consented to the
marriage taking place then. She also was afraid
of herself,' and that if she had so long to deliberate
might retract her consent, and thus again condemn
herself to the solitude of a home haunted with sad
memories.

" The banns of marriage were accordingly pro.
claimed in two parish churches in Edinburgh—St.
Cuthbert's, the parish in which she resided, and in
that in which Edinburgh Castle is situated, for
Major Yelverton's parish; and the marriage was
_celebrated in the church of Trinity by the Very
Rev. Dean Ramsay, in the presence of her own
brother and sister, her children, Miss Jefferies (the
lady who had been residing with her), and four or
five intimate friends; Major Yelverton's brother
(since deceased) being present on his side.
" This was on the 26th of June, 1858, about three•
years and seven months after the death of Edward.
Forbes.

" Major Yelverton had previously confessed to
her in general terms that his former life had not
been a steady one, and that he had had a mistress,
not mentioning her name; but said that that con-
nexion was completely and finally broken off.
" She had no legal consultation previous to the
marriage, except with her own solicitor, respecting
her marriage settlements, which secured to her her
life-interest in all the property to which her children.
are entitled ; this, of course, being done with Major
Yelverton's full knowledge and concurrence.
"No intimation was ever given to her by any
one that any woman claimed to be the lawful wife
of Major Yelverton until June 30 (four days after
the marriage), when Major Yelverton was informed
from Dean Ramsay that a Roman Catholic clergy-
man had waited upon him, and shown him the Rev.
Father Mooney's certificate.

Major Yelverton, accompanied by Mrs. Yel-
verton's brother, went the next day, the Ist of July,
to Ireland to investigate this matter, leaving Mrs.
Yelverton in her own house with her elder sister,
the wife of Colonel Cameron.

" Major Yelverton returned from Ireland on the
Ith of July, bringing the legal opinion of Dr. Gayor
and others that the alleged marriage was, under the
circumstances submitted to them, null and void.
"No allegation of a Scotch marriage was then
made in any quarter, nor till a long time afterwards.
" Major Yelverton, therefore, returned to his wife,
her sister still remaining with them, until they
shortly afterwards came over to Ireland on a visit to
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Yelverton and to Lord and
Lady Avonmore.
" I have written this letter under a serious—l
might, perhaps, say solemn—feeling of duty to the
memory of Edward Forbes, and to the future pro-
spects of his son and daughter, and with as deep a
feeling of my responsibility for its exact truth as if
I stood it the presence of a Court of Justice ; and I
unhesitatingly assert my conviction of the perfect
propriety of conduct observed by the lady in whose
behalf I have written it throughout the whole
transaction."

* A playful exaggeration of her real age, which was. not
much more than 30.
t Dr.'Allman was Forbes's successor.

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TtiE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMERICA

By the arrival of the steamship, City of Balti-
more, we learn that the reception of Mr. Lincoln
at the. City Hall, New York, on the 20th, was a
most flattering testimonial of respect to the elect
chief of the nation. Mr. Lincoln said :

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,—l have just en-
joyed the honour of a reception by the other branch
of this Legislature, and I return to you and them
my thanks for the reception which the people of
New Jersey have given, through their chosen re-
presentatives, to me as their representative, for the
time being, of the majesty of the people of the
United States. I appropriate to myself very
little of the demonstrations of respect with
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be given to any man, but that it should
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ceived here by the representatives of the people of
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bravest and wisest look with doubt and awe upon
the aspectpresented by our national affairs. Under
these circumstances you will readily see why I
should not speak in detail of the course I shall deem
it best to pursue. It is proper that I should avail
myself of all the information and all the time at
my command, in order that when the time arrives in
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the ground which I deem the best and safest, and
from which I may have no occasion to swerve. I
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just to the North, the East, the West, the South,
and the whole country. I take it, I hope, in good
temper; certainly no malice towards any section.
I shall do all that may be in my power to proinote
a peaceful settlement of all our difficulties. The
man does not live that is more devoted to peace than
I am. (Cheers.) None who would do more to pre-
serve it, but it may be necessary to put the foot
down firmly. (Here the audience broke out in
cheers so long and loud, that for some moments it
was impossible to hear Mr. Lincoln's voice.) He
continued—And if I do my duty and do right you
will sustain me, will you not ? (Loud cheers and
cries of " Yes, yes ; we will.") Received asl am
by the members of a legislature, the majority of
whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,
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attack now, there will be no pilot ever needed for
another voyage.