The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1861.

GEOLOGY,—KING'S COLLEGE, London.—
Professor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a
COURSE of LECTURES on GEOLOGY on FRIDAY
MORNING, January 25, at 9 o'clock. They will be continued
on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday at the same hour.
Fee, £2 120. 6d. R. JELF, D.D., Principal.

INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY,
142, Strand, London, W.C., January 10, 1861.
Notice is Hereby Given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVI-
DEND on the Capital Stock of the Society, at the rate of
Six per Cent. per annum, to the 31st December last, is now
due, and in course of PAYMENT at the Society's Office, be-
tween the hours of 11 and 3.
EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.
No. 142, Strand, London, W.C.

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN
RAILWAY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, ihat the next HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
of this COMPANY' will be held at the Waterloo-bridge
Station, London, on THURSDAY, the 14th day of February,
1861, at One o'clock, p.m., 13recisely, when the Directors
will submit a Report on the affairs of the Company, a
dividend will be declared, and the general business of the
Company transacted.
And notice is hereby further given, that, at this meeting,
there will be an election of three Directors—viz., of two in
the places of Henry C iarles Lacy, Esq., and Edward john
Hutchins, Esq., who retire at this time in the usual rotation.
and, being re-eligible, offer themselves for re-election ; and
of one in the place of Matthew Uzielli, Esq., deceased.
George Best, Esq., of EaFtbury, near Guildford; Samuel
Gregson, Esq., M.P., of Upper Harley-street, London ; Alex-
ander Hoyes, Esq., Bitterne Grove, Southampton ; and
Wyndham S. Portal, Esq., of Malshanger, near Basingstoke,
have also given notice of their intention to become candidates
for election.
The Books of the Company for the Transfer of Stock and
Shares will be closed from Tliursday, the 31st day of January,
till Thursday, the 14th day of February, 1801, both days
inclusive. r _

By order,

L. CRO3IBIE, Secretary,

Waterloo-bridge Station,
London, Jan. 17, 1861.

and they necessarily resisted all the efforts, both
open and insidious, which were made by the
civilians to acquire for the newly imported code
of jurisprudence that supremacy—that unhealthy
and, unjust supremacy, I will say—which has
ever since rendered the continental courts of justice
with the exception of those of France, a byword
for legal trick and office malversation, when com-
pared with the honest, straightforward action of
our own.

I trust that, for the public good, and for the be-
nefit of all heirs at law, and of the suitors whose
domestic troubles drive them to the newly•estab-
lished court, that not only in the Shedden case, but
in every other which may rest chiefly upon facts,
the technicalities of law will be avoided, and the
right to obtain the honest and impartial verdict of
a jury deciding upon truth and justice, will hence-
forward never be withheld.

It is among the singular features of this cele-
brated case that, besides occasioning the suicide of
two persons implicated in the frauds alleged, it was
made by our great novelist the groundwork of one
of his most stirring tales. In the novel of " Guy
IVlannering," the characters of Hatterick, Glossin,
Vanbeest, Brown, and others, no less than the cir-
cumstances of the story, and even. the localities
pointed out, have the directest possible reference to
the progress of and the actors in this exciting and
real drama of private life.