The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,' NOVEMBER 12, 1844.

acting clergy of all orders. A Commission might I
easily be organised to report on all cases re-
ported of inattention, or malfeasance, on the part of
clergymen in any diocese ; and as to the difficulty
engendered by the Rubric on account of the more or
less strict degree in which its letters has been adhered
to by pastors, the " Convocation" might be re-assem-
bled—or at any rate a council, consisting of the
whole hierarchy of the Establishment, might be
assembled—who, having regard to the forms now, and
for many years past, observed in a majority of
the churches of each diocese, should revise and finally
settle this Rubric—adopting, we should hope, the
fewest and the simplest forms, using the plainest
language, and eschewing and rejecting the greatest
possible number of genuflexions, and wax-taper
homages, for this purpose.

Madrid journals of the 4th have been received. On
that day the trial of General PRIM commenced, before
a court-martial composed of seven general officers,
with General MA2zAREno, the Captain-General of
Madrid, as President. The defence on the part of
PRIM was read by General SHELLY, from a manu-
script drawn up by the two counsel. General SHELLY
protested against the competence of the tribunal, but
he protested in vain. The defence of the other pri-
soners were read, or rather attempted to be read, by
officers of the Court, for it appears that one of them
was so ignorant that he could not read in an intelli-
gible way, and one of the spectators was selected to
perform that duty. The prisoners were all absent
during these proceedings. After some deliberation
the President announced that the Court did no con-
sider it had got sufficient evidence, and further proofs
must be produced.
The following account of a fresh execution at Bar-
celona appears in the Verdad of the sth :
" This morning Antonio Sanjust suffered capital
punishment in the glacis of the citadel for a crime com-
mitted last year at the time of the Centralist revolution.
The military force was in full uniform, as well as the
bloody brotherhood.' The greatest eclat was given to
the execution." The Impartial of the same date says :
—" Antonio Sanjust was the son of the unfortunate
General of that name who fell at Malaga, in a public
tumult. His grandfather fell in the same manner."
The report that General ESPARTERO had left Lon-
don for Spain had caused some uneasiness to the Go-
vernment, and orders had been dispatched to all the
authorities, both on the land and sea frontier, to use
every exertion to prevent his entering the country.
MADRID BOURSE, Nov. 4.—Three per Cents. fur
Account, '271; Five per Cents. for Account, 201.

A royal ordinance was published in the Paris
Moniteur of Sunday, authorising the Minister of
Finance to complete a loan of 200,000,000 francs by
public competition. The sale and adjudication will
take place on Monday, the 9th of December, on
sealed tenders, and in one lot, to the highest bidder.
The payment is to be effected in monthly sums of
ten millions each, the first to be paid on the 23d De-
cember, 1844, and the last on the 7th of August,
1846. The ordinance and the conditions are given
at length in another part of The Sun, under the
proper head.
" A sum of 300 millions (says the Moniteur) remained
to be issued of the loan placed at the disposition of
Government by the law of June 25, 1841 ; but the
abundant resources of the Treasury do not permit to
require more than two-thirds of the said sum, and
the remaining one-third is to be applied to reduce a
portion of the floating debt arising out of the receipts
of the savings' banks. A law regulating the appli-
cation of the said one-third shall be proposed to the
Chambers in the ensuing session." The same official
journal contains another royal ordinance, appropri-
ating 1,800,000 f. (72,0001.) for the construction of
an atmospheric railroad from Nanterre to the plain of
St. Germains.

The following deliberate falsehoods respecting the
Governor of Gibraltar, Sir ROBERT \Viisox, appear
in M. THIERS' paper, the Constitutionnel:—W hat
justice can Englishmen expect from French Opposi-
tion journals, when we find a journal, representing
-the political sentiments of an ex-Prime Minister,
thus publishing such mischievous and unfounded
statements ?

" There is at Gibraltar a Governor generally known
as a turbulent man, and above all, an enemy of the
French, and whom a Ministry which sincerely wished to
avoid anything that could annoy France, and to practise
conscientiously the entente cordiale, would certainly have
recalled from the commencement of our war with Mo-
rocco. Nothing of the kind has taken place. The
British Cabinet has maintained its agent, and if no con-
flict has taken place owing to the meeting of the officers
of our navy with those of the British navy at Gibraltar,
it is certainly not Sir Robert Wilson we have to thank
for it. All those who were in the Morocco expedition
know that our naval men had mach to complain of with
respect to the conduct of certain English officers, and es-
pecially that of the Governor. More than that, it is
a certain fact, and now generally known, that at
-qhralter one day, during the expedition to Morocco, Sir
Robe' :did not hesitate to say to the Prince of Join-
ville, before % number of witnesses, that a general war
was necessary, in
• order that every party might get out of
the false heposition in :7hich it was at present placed. He
had even th
-large upon and develope that
text. Is not this singular lank. ale from the mouth of
the agent of a friendly country ?
-"ar is spoken of to
e tone that
the Prince representing France, in the sa- 4 jaw'.
would ba taken in congratulating him on the goo,,
ligence between the two countries, and its importance 1.
the cause of the civilisation of the world. So public an
incivility certainly reached the ears of the British Ca-
binet. But has Sir Robert Wilson been removed ? By
no means. Has our Minister demanded his recal ? It is
not at all probable, and we would rather believe that our
Ministry has not dared to make the demand, than to
suppose that Lord Aberdeen has not paid any attention
to it. The King has been greatly welcomed, and
harangued at Windsor, but the good wishes of the
British Cabinet for the King, do not go the length of
recalling an officer who pronounced uncivil words before
his son. It was the guns of the same Sir Robert Wilson
which lately sank the Spanish vessel the Rayo, and
although al. Martinez de la Rosa has declared that he
expected satisfaction for that savage act, be assured,
that the satisfaction if it ever be accorded, shall not be
accompanied by the recut of the Governor of Gibraltar.'

We have also to complain of this journal for occa-
sionally misrepresenting, and willingly too, state-
ments which appear in The Sun. But the other day
we published a paragraph from the Bombay Courier,
announcing, with some bitterness, that a French ves-
sel of war had fired upon the Samarang, an English
merchant vessel. The offensive remarks are imputed
to The Sun, while we distinctly gave our authority—
namely the Bombay Courier.
Of a piece with the attack on Sir ROBERT WILSON
is the following, made by the National on Mr.PETBER,-
STONIIAUGII, the new British Consul at Havre :
" Not only are we ill informed in France of what
passes abroad, but we are often unacquainted with facts
that concern us at home. It is thus that no one has re-
marked a recent appointment at Havre. The choice of
Lord Aberdeen is, however, very significatory, and if M.
Guizot was not the organ of English interests in the
Cabinet, he ought, without doubt, have refused the
extquator to the parson just sent us by our neighbours.
Fetherstonhaugh is nothing more or less than the
worthy rival of that Turnbull who is so well remem-
bered at Cuba. He has been placed at Havre only to
watch our commerce, and to seek, in the outfit of our
ships, some indications which may justify a visit of the
right of search to our shipping. Has not this gentleman
many claims on the abolitionist society of London ? Is
he not author of a journey among the slave holding states
of America ? The installation of Mr. Featherstonhaugh
at Havre is easily accounted for. There our coasts are
watched from Brest to Bayonne, by agents more or less
recommended to the French Government.'

A good deal of business was done at TORTONI.S on
Sunday, in consequence of the announcement in the
Itloniteur respecting the loan. The Three per Cents.
were done at 82f. 55c. to 82f. 65c. for the next settle-
ment, and for the end of December 83f. 50c. was asked.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The following late intelli-
gence was received here this morning :—" Lima,
August 19.—Vivanca has been defeated, and having
been brought prisoner to this city, was bani,•hed to
Mexico by the Constitutional Council which governs
the city. General Castello has taken possession of
Arequipa, and is now advancing upon this city. It
is supposed that the Council will not oppose his au-
thority here."

INCENDIARISM AT ST. NEOTS.—The inhabitants
of St. Neots were greatly alarmed by the sight of a
fire at the back of the Cross Keys Inn, in the occu-
pation of Mrs. Arnold. The vile hand chose a
wheat-cock for his base purpose, which was quickly
one mass of flame, and was soon consumed.
Another, containing fifty loads of wheat, caught
fire, but through the exertions of the neighbours, and
the good feeling evinced by the lower classes, part
was saved, a smart rain continuing all the time. The
St. Neots engine, although not 200 yards from
the conflagration, was not at work for half an hour
after the event, the key of the engine-house not
being obtained. Mrs. A. has the same labourers em-
ployed as at all times, having made no change, nor has
she for thirty years used a thrashing-machine ; there-
fore no clue at present can be obtained to the perpetrator
of so diabolical an act. The best of order and good
feeling was shown by every one present, as the whole
town was in danger from the position of the wind and
situation of the premises. We are happy to announce
that Mrs. A. is insured in the Norwich Union.—Cum-
bridge Chronicle.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

702.EXG7V.

A royal ordinance for borrowing eight millions ster-
ling app cured in the Paris Moniteur of Sunday.
His Majesty on Saturday, accompanied by Count de
Montelivet, General Friant and other olficer3, left St.
Cloud for Versailles at three o'elock, and returned in
Coe evening at six.
M. Agar, Count de Afosbourg, Peer of France, Com-
mander of the Legion of Honour, and formerly Finance
Minister fur the kingdom of Naples, died at Paris on
S:aturday, aged 74.
The Duke d'Aumale leaves Paris for Naples on the
12th inst., accompanied by the Prince de Joinville.
They embark on the 16th, at Toulon, on board the
Gomer, for Naples. They expect to arrive at Naples on
the 20th, and on the 25th, the anniversary of Louis Phi-
lippe's marriage, the Duke d'Aumale will be married to
the Princess of Salerno.

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The Steele says that M. Dupetit Thouars is expected
to arrive home in December or January.
A letter from Bromberg, in Prussia, states that a con-
gregation of Catholics in that place has separated from
the mother church. It refuses to acknowledge the au-
thority of the Fope as head of the church, or to con-
tinue auricular confession, but it preserves the celebra-
tion of the mass.

The Madrid police, it is said, have discovered a depot
of 1,800 stand of arms, which were in readiness to be
made use of by the conspirators.
The court-martial for the trial of General Prim as-
sembled on the 4th, under the Presidency of General
Mazaredo. Generals Concha, River°, Campo, Olange,
and De la Concordia, are amongst the number of the
members.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

CITANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) •
VERNON 0. THELLIJSON—JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this
oase, which was argued some time since before his Lord-
ship, upon an application to discharge an order pro-
nounced by his Honour the Vice Chancellor of England.
The following are the short facts: upon which the case
Caine before the Court :—On the death of the late Sir
Bethell Codrington, a judgment creditor for the sum of
4,0001. brought an action of Ecire facias against his ex-
ecutors. To that action the executors pleaded plena
administravit, and then 'filed their bill in this. Court for
the purpose of obtaining an injunction to restrain the
proceedings in the action. A motion was made for that
purpose, and an injunction was granted by the
Vice-Chancellor. Upon this the defendant applied to
this branch of the Court to discharge that order. His
Lordship was clearly of opinion that there had been no
!aches or delay on the part of the executors, and such
being the case, he felt bound to dismiss the motion for
the discharge of the Vice-Chancellor's order, with costs.
His LORDSHIP then proceeded to hear appeals ; but
nothing of any importance came before the Court during
the morning.

ing a very lengthened period, and presented perhaps
the most singular features ever witnessed in any suit in
the Ecclesiastical Courts.

The Queen's Advocate appeared on behalf of Mr.
Clowes, and Dr. Adams fir Mrs. Clowes.
A mass of affidavits were read on both sides, for the
purpose of first supporting an application on behalf of
Mrs. Harriet Clowes for a restitution of conjugal rights
by her husband, Mr. Edward Clowes, the sun of Mr.
Clowes, the well-known and extensive printer, which ap-
plication was met on the part of the husband with a
charge of adultery against the wife, in consequence of
which he claimed exemption from the discharge of any
conjugal obligations. Such was the aspect under which
the case now came before the Court, but circumstances
superinducing this allegation and counter-allegation
spread over a period of nearly five years. The following
is a brief statement of all the main facts of the case as
stated in' the affidavits :

It appeared, that in the early part of the year 1840
Mrs. Clowes, then Miss Harriet Jones, was an inmate of
a boarding school, and an intimacy arose between them,
the result of which was, that Miss Jones declared her-
self to be pregnant by Mr. Clowes, and he, after sonic
hesitation, eventually consented to marry her. The
husband alleged that she had contracted this marriage
with him under a false impression, she being at the time
about seventeen years of age, and he twenty-five years.
During the time that Mrs. Clowes was residing at Ken-
nington, in the year 1841, she one day, during the tem-
porary absence of Mr. Clowes from home, had the
infant, child of a peasant in South Wales brought to
her, and upon his return she informed him that
during his absence she had been confined of a fine male
infant; showing him at the same time the child, which
she was obliged to have procured under the circum-
stances first stated. They lived together after that event
until the month of February, 1842, when he received
certain information which induced him to suddenly
leave Mrs. Clowes, who although she frequently made in-
quiries at both:the private house and business premises of
her husband's father, could receive no other information
than that he had gone abroad, and was not likely to re-
turn. For a short time after the departure of her hus-
band, his father paid her a small weekly allowance, which
he soon, however, withdrew. The family of Mr.
Clowes then, through the agency of the police,
tried to gain sufficient legal evidence upon which to
obtain a divorce. A suit was instituted in
the Consistory Court for this purpose the merits of which
rested chiefly upon Mrs. Clowes having got married in
a false name, but the Court decided that the allegation
had not bean fully proved, and refused the application.
As soon as this case (which occupied the Court for
nearly two years) was decided, Mrs. Clowes instituted
the present suit for the restoration of conjugal rights
which was met in bar with a counter-allegation, that the
promoter of the suit had been guilty of adultery.
The voluminous affidavits on the part of Mrs. Clowes,
after denying the allegations with reFpect to procuring
the child by fraud, stated that all those circumstances
upon which her husband had sought to found the charge
of adultery had been forced upon her by the fact of hav-
ing been abandoned by her husband and his family and left
in a state of utter destitution. One case may be men-
tioned. She was compelled to advertise for a situation,
when she was engaged as an attendant in a shop in the.
Strand, and upon going to the person who engaged her
to take her in the evening to the premises, instead of
doing so he placed her in a hackney-coach and caused her
to be driven to a house of ill-fame in Gloucester-place.
A mass of documentary evidence was put in to sup-
port the allegation of adultery against Mrs. Clowes,
most of which was unfit for publication. The last affi-
davit stated that Mr. Clowes was quite dependent upon
his father for support, and had not one penny of private
property in his own right.
The Learned ADVOCATE having been heard on the
technical points of the case on each side,
The further consideration of the suit was ordered to be
adjourned.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

SALMON V. BAILEY.

This was an action for an assault and for the injury
done to the character of the plaintiff, by a false accusa-
tion of an attempt to pass false coin.
Mr. Bailey, the defendant, is a butcher, residing in
Tottenham-c3urt-road ; and Mr. Salmon is a coach-
maker, in the same neighbourhood.
Martha Heed deposed that on Saturday, 28th Sep-
tember, she accompanied Mrs. Salmon to market. That
they entered a public-house together in order to obtain
change of a sovereign. They afterwards went into de •
fendant's shop for the purpose of purchasing meat. Mrs.
Salmon bought meat to the value of 2s. lid. and gave
Mrs. Bailey the sum of two shillings and sixpence.
Having left the shop without her change, she returned to
obtain it, when Mrs. Bailey, who had taken the money,
did not deny that she had neglected to give plaintiff the
change, but asserted that the sixpence was a bad one.
Witness said that :t was not a bad sixpence, and that
the coin produced was not that which plaintiff
had given ; she knew that from the fact
that the money which Mrs. Bailey . produced
was black, and that given to the plaintiff was
not. Mrs. Bailey referred to her husband, who said that
the money was bad, and, after a great deal of altercation,
turned the plaintiff and the witness out of the shop, and
thrust the former out with such force, that if she had not
been caught by a by stander she would have fallen in
the kennel. He afterwards seized upon her violently,
and shook her in such a manner that she feared she
would lose some money which she had in her hand, and,
when she persisted in asking for her change, he gave her
in charge for attempting to pass bad money.
The policeman. E 98, deposed to having taken plain-
tiff into custody, and to defendant sending a message to
the station-house to the effect that he did not wish to
press the charge, upon which plaintiff was liberated.
Mr. BALLANTI NE addressed the jury at great length,
setting forth several circumstances in mitigation He said
that it could not be denied that defendant had acted very
hastily, but he thought the jury need nut give more than
nominal damages, as there were several circumstances
which seemed to support the charge against plaintiff,
although no one could for an instant suspect her or her
friend, after hearing the whole of the circumstances.
The jury found for plaintiff, with 5/. damages.
There were this morning several other cases, but of no
importance.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner GouLntnix.)

IN RE HENRY CATON, BUTCHER, HATFIELD,
The insolvent applied for his interim order, but was
opposed by Mr. Bagley, on the part of several creditors,
and on the ground that the case was out of the jurisdic-
tion of the Court, the insolvent having been a trader,
and the debts upwards of 300/. The schedule, however,
exhibited only debts to the amount of 2841. The insol-
vent had, it appeared, compounded with his creditors in
1843, and the composition had been paid up, in full of all
claims. But afterwards it appeared that, through igno•
ranee, the insolvent had entered many of those persons
on his present schedule. He was therefore ordered to
amend and exhibit it to his creditors, before coming up
fur his final order.

(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.)

IN RE GEORGE FIELDING, OF THAME, OXFORD.
The bankrupt, an ironmonger, in extensive business,
was opposed by Mr. Edwin James, for the assigr.ees, on
the ground that the accounts were not properly rendered.
His HoNoun adjourned the further hearing, but or-
dered that the solicitor to the assignees should furnish
the bankrupt's accountant with a written notice of what
they required in good time before next examination.

MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
DISORDERLY PAUPERS.—Three young women, named
Turner, Elliott, and Knott, were charged with riotous
conduct iu the Marylebone Workhouse.
Mr. James Jones, the master of the workhouse, stated
that about eight o'clock last night ho was told that the
defendants were burning something. He proceeded to
the females' ward and saw them burning the stuffing of
their beds. They had broken up some of the furniture
in the ward and were burning portions of it. Elliott
threw the burning embers about and exclaimed " We
will burn all the old devils (meaning the inmates) in
their beds." _ _

They were committed for twenty-one days.
Two other girls, named Penfold and Sexton, were
also ckarged with riotous conduct in the workhouse.
Mr. Jones stated, that when he was giving the
above named females in charge, last night, the pri-
s9ners obtained a ladle, and Sexton smashed twelve
squares of glass with it, and Penfold four squares. They
were committed for six weeks, the extended period under
the amended Poor-law Act.

SAVINGS' BANKS.—It is believed that some parties
well conditioned in life have invested money in more
than one savings' bank, and which they know is con-
trary to the law. We believe a very strict eye will now be
kept upon depositors, and if any are discovered having
investments in more than one bank for savings, they will
have no cause to complain in having to forfeit their
money. These are the parties who ought not to have
deposited in those institutions, which were established
for the humble classes, and it is a great discredit to those
who have committed the abuses they have done. We
know of one savings' bank where the trustees and ma-
nagers intend, after the 20th of the present month, to give
those parties who ought not to have deposited a notice
to withdraw their investments. Very proper discontent
is already manifesting itself (as was expected would be
the case), in consequence of the reduction of interest,
which is to take place after the 20th instant.
THE ITALIAN OPERA AT PARIS.—M. Fatel, the
manager of the Paris Italian Opera, is placed in an awk-
ward predicament by Victor Hugo's persistance in in-
terdicting the performance of Lucrezia Borgia and Ernani,
at Les Italiens ; and the author of Norma has also for-
bidden the directeur to represent his opera. M. Fatel
is at the same time involved in law proceedings with the
well-known composer Conradin Kreutzer, which creates
much attention at the present moment in the Parisian
musical circles. The litigation is owing to an agree-
ment having been entered into between the manager and
composer, to the effect that Kreutzer's opera, Une Nuit
a Grenade, was to be represented at the Paris Italian
Opera this season. The parts being destined for Mdlle.
Nissen, Mario, and Ronconi, which were subsequently
changed by mutual consent, to be sung by Mario, Fer-
nasari, and Mad. Persiani. The opera is now in re-
hearsal, but M. Fatel has allotted the characters to
Corelli, Fornasari, and Mdlle. Manara, to which M.
Kreutzer objects, and has consequently brought the
matter before the Tribunal of Commerce of La Seine.

The example set by Sir Harry Verney, in allowing
his tenants to shoot over their respective farms, is the
theme of conversation in all companies. The farmers'
tables ring with praises to Sir Harry. None rejoice
more than the Duke of Buckingham's tenants, because
none are greater sufferers than they are, from the de-
struction they yearly witness and feel done themselves
by the enormous abundance of game. No person unae•
quainted with a nobleman's preserves can form any idea
of the injury hares and partridges do the whole country.
—Aylesbury News.