The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-31 00:00:00

PROBABLE sr

Tiff
Eliza Middleton
Exotic filly
Probity
Sacrifice ......
Regina
Kathleen
Sis. to swallow.
Estafette ..

*Rhedyeina.....
Gillyflower ..
Fernande.... .....
Sister to Pillage
Clelia or Cora...
C. of Albemarle
*Ramonette.....

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY-TWO OF RUGBY.

This match was commenced on Thursday at Rugby,
and the following is the result of the first day's play:—

ENGLAND -FIRST INNINGS.
J. Wisden, c C. Tinley, b F. Tinley ...
W. Clarke, b C. Tinley ... ... ...
G. Parr, b F. Tinley
T. Adams, c I.illynhite, b F. Tinley...
T. Box, c Pickard, b Lillywhite
N. Felix, Esq., run out ••• ~. ~,
W. Martingell, c and bF. Tinley ...
A. Mynn, Esq , b F. Tinley ...
J. Guy, not out... ...
G. Chatterton, not out...
Byes 3, leg byes 1, wide 2, no balls 1 ...

.. 28

... 18

THE NErAur. PRINCES,—His Excellency General
Jung Bahadoor Koonwur Ramajee, prime minister of the
Nepaul State, accompanied by his two brothers and suite,
paid a visit to the East India House yesterday, and was in-
troduced to the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany. His Excellency, who was brilliantly attired in the
costume of his country, was congratulated by the chairman,
Mr. Shepherd, on his arrival in England; and in return ex-
pressed himself much gratified by the reception he had met
with in all quarters. After partaking of an excellent and
very handsome ckjeuner, prepared for the occasion, his
Excellency was conducted over the Company's library and
museum, and on taking his departure expressed himself
highly delighted with his visit. His Excellency will be
present at Exeter-hall to-night at the performance of the
London Sacred Harmonic Society.
SIR JAMES BROOKE.—We have received s letter
from Mr. Henry Wise, 34, Cornhill, stating that Mr. Drum-
mond, in the Ilouse of Commons, on Thursday night, used
these words :—" The real secret of the attack upon Sir James
Brooke was to be traced to an anonymous slanderer, who had
failed in partitioning the district with him." Mr. Wise fur-
ther says that Mr. Drummond subsequently applied these re-
marks to him; and then adds—"l deny the truth of Mr.
Drummond'a statements, and the unworthy motives ascribed
to me I disclaim."—Post.
ARRIVALS AT MIVART'S HOTEL—The Earl and
Countess of Shrewsbury, and Miss Talbot, from Alton
Towers; Lord and Lady Farnham, from Farnham Hall,
Cavan ; the Marquis and Marchioness
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own quarters, a plan, by which lie should be drawn to
Line, was imagined and executed, though not without
trouble, by the three injured partners. The delin-
quent had been on terms of intimacy with a woman em-
ployed in his establishment. This woman was gained over.
She wrote to her former paramour that she could no longer
live without him, that she was about to quit England, and
that he must meet her at Lille, where a letter addressed
poste restante would indicate the hotel to which bbe had
repaired. The three partners, reckoning greatly- vpon the
success of their stratagem, took a special steamboat on
day evening and performed a rapid voyage, which coe.t.etd m
at
nearly 401. At four o'clock in the morning they arrived
case
Lille, where they secured the assistance of the police,
their prey should have taken the bait. They placed
taking u
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selves in ambush near the post-office, one of them
at
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his position within that establishment, two h
Karat's, a hairdresser, opposite the Rue Diss
police at the cabaret of the Cave of St. _ They were
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for at eleven o'clock. precisely the ex-
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ceived at once that resistance was useless, and accompanied
the police to the lock-up-house, where he will remain con-
fined until he is dispatched to England, where he will save
to answer for his delinquency."

MR. COBDEN AND CAPTAIN
AARON SMITH.
The following singular correspondence bas been
published : _ _ _

" 16, Camden Cottages, Camden Town,
May 25, 1850.
"Sir,—My friend, Captain Aaron Smith, has re-
quested me to wait upon you in reference to a speech of
yours, reported in the J imes of yesterday. I shall to
glad of an appointment for an early hour on Monday
next ;

" And remsiu, Sir, your very obedient servant,
" E. GARRETT.
" To Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Sze., London."
" 103, Westbourne-terrace, May.2s, 1850.
" Sin—lf you wish to make any communication to
me respecting your friend, Captain Aaron Smith, I re-
quest that it may be made in writing; and, as you are a
►tranger to me, you will please to be good enough to
add a reference to some person of respectability, by
which I may be able to judge how far you arc warranted
in interfering in the m atter in question, or entitled to
any further answer from rre.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" E. Garbett, Esq." "RICHARD COBDEN.
16, Camden Cottages, Camden 'town,
May 28, 1850.
"Sir.—Yours of the 25th only reached me this morn-
ing. You request me to make my communication in
riling in reference to my friend, Captain Aaron Smith,
and, making it a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence,
you request a reference as to my respectability.
" My reference then will be to the secretary of that
League of which Richard Cobden was once the head,
and of which I was a member. You have availed your-
self of the sacred shelter of the House of Commons to
make use of languagerespecting my friend,Captain Aaron
Smith, which you well knew to be false, and which you
also know you dare not have used in any other place
without being certaia to receive personal chastisement.
"I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant,
"E. GAIRBETT.

" Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., &c."
" 103, Westbourne-terrace, May 29, 1850.
" Sir,—l will not allow the insulting tone of your
letter to deter me from offering to do justice to your
friend, Captain Aaron Smith. You say that my state-
ment respecting him was false. Disprove that state-
ment, and I will retract it in my place in Parliament,
with an ample apology for the wrong done to his cha-
racter. If, instead of disproving it, you seek to evade
the question by blustering about 'personal chastisement,'
it will afford the strongest possible proof that I have not
mistaken the character of Captain Aaron Smith or his
friend. As for such threats, I pay my police-rate in
order that society may be protected against ruffianly
violence, and am obliged to you for the hint.
" Do not suppose that I have sought to shelter myself
behind the privileges of Parliament. If your friend
should again obtrude his offensive presence upon a re-
spectable body of philanthropists, as he did at the public
meeting respectino. the Borneo massacre, and should I
chance to be on the platform, he shall be told to his face
all, and more than all, that I have said in the House,
unless, in the meantime, he clears his character by better
arguments than menaces of physical outrage. And
" I am, Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
(Signed) " RICHARD COBDEN.
" E. Garbott, Esq."
" 16, Camden Cottages, Camden-town,
May 30, 1850.
" Sir,—l am in receipt of yours of the 29th.
" Had you written in the first instance in a different
spirit, you would have found that the interview I sought
with you was not intended to intimidate, but to show
you what the facts in reference to Captain Aaron Smith
really were; and if I satisfied you that you were in
error, I simply wished you to do justice to a calum-
niated man.
" You stated in your place in Parliament that my
friend, Captain Aaron Smith, was a most atrocious
pirate,' and that he took Captain Cooke out of the
Cambrian ship; and you (very logically, certainly) call
upon me to prove a negative.
" I had always understood that every Englishman
was considered innocent until he was proved to be
guilty; but it seems you think differently.
"So much for preface. Now for facts—Captain
Smith never did take Captain Cooke out of the Cam-
brian; but I do not, in defending my friend, wish to
shelter him under a quibble.
" /t is true that Captain Cooke was taken out of the
brig Industry on the 7th August, 1822, by a piratical
vessel, on board of which Captain Smith was at that
very time a prisoner, and from which ship he afterwards
escaped.
" Captain Smith, on his arrival in England in the fol-
lowing year, was arraigned on two indictments at the
Admiralty Sessions, before Sir William Garrow, one of
which was for the alleged offence of capturing the Vic-
toria, Captain Hearne; the other for taking Captain
Cooke out of the Industry. Captain Cooke, on the first
trial, was a witness for the prosecution, and on that
occasion gave the whole statement of his own capture
from the Industry.
" I need not tell you that in those days counsel were
not allowed to speak in favour of a prisoner.
" Captain Smith was, therefore, obliged to address
the jury himself, which was, in reality, to conduct his
own defence.
" The jury, without moving round in the box, in-
stantly acquitted him.
" Captain Smith was then immediately arraigned on
the second indictment, and he made a strong attack on
Sir Nobert Gifford, the then Attorney-General, for the
manner in which the prosecutions were conducted by
him.
" The Attorney-General then stated that as the jury
hod i.ll the facts on the first trial, he should not offer any
evidence on the second indictment, as it would only be
repeating what they had before heard. The jury, there-
fore, under the direction of the Learned Judge, at once
acquitted him.
• The trial took place on the 19. h December, 1823,
and as the records are open to any one, you can readily
ascertain if my statement is true.
" Captain Smith afterwards published a narrative cf
the capture of these ships, in which he clearly shows
that what Captain Cooke stated is as untrue, and the latter
party has never had the manliness to answer it or in any
manner to defend himself.
" I am at a loss to understand the concluding para-
graph of your letter.
" If parties will call public meetings with the avowed
object of casting censures on an absent individual, they
must submit to the inconvenience of hearing their pro-
ceedings censured by those who are still fond of the old
English maxim of a fair field and no favour.'
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient
servant, " E. GARBETT.
" Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P."