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

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, bF. Tinley ... ..„
T. Adams, c Lillywhite, bF. Tinley... ...
T. Box, c Pickard, b Lillywhito
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 ...

... 9

... 0

... 7
... 4

... 11

... 4

... 28
... 1

... 14
... 18
... 7

THE NEPAUL 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 clejeuner' 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 a letter
from Mr. Henry Wise, 34, Cornhill, stating that Mr. Drum-
mond, in the House 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
rt uh me naaondnddd
ts sh—ue
us
len qwd ueoenrnyt thl
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the
appliedhs t
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failed in partitioning the district with him." Mr. Wise fur-
ther says that
lsn;
statements,iarn.
Dmraurmksintoonhdi
to me I disclaim."—Post.

ARRIVALS AT INIIVART'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 of Waterford, from
Curraghmore ; Mr. Robert:Peel, from Paris. Senor Isturitz,
Ambassador from Spain, and suite, are daily expected ; apart-
ments have been taken for the reception of hie Excellency.
ARREST OF A RUNAWAY PARTNER.—The Constitu-
tionnet publishes the following communication from Lille :
" An arrest has taken place in this town under somewhat
extraordinary circumstances. One of the four partners of a
banking-house in London had one fine day been found
missing, and, together with him, the funds in the strong-
box, amounting to the enormous sum of 125,000'. He bad
taken refuge in Belgium, and his place of retreat was ,
known. Either because it was easier to arrest him in
France, or because there was danger in seizing him in his
own quarters, a plan, by which he should be drawn to
Lille, was imagined and executed, though not without
trouble, by the three injured partners. The
woman liquent had been on terms of intimacy with a
em-
ployed in his establishment. This woman was gs!inneod,oonlg.eer;
She wrote to her former paramour that she couldn longer
live without him, that she was about to
that he must meet her at Lille, where :Ito
which
she had
poste restunte would indicate the hotel
upon the
repaired. The three partners, reckoning
1 steamboatgreatly on Satur-
daysuccess of their stratagem, took a specolasge,
quit England,
nearly 40/. At four o'clock in themorning
evening and performed a rapid voyage,
of the police, in case
Lille, where they secured the assistancehe
bait. They placed them-
selvestheir prey should have taken the bait.
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pected tai ohnaiNirdi trhesisnert,foh;ao
delinquent,t
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surrounded ddeedp i cbty
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treason,et
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ahsttetheysepe were
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nnu gge
thhiosseaswtohnoim he could now
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eonn as his most formidable enemies. He per-
coheniimlvyesedlolfaostkuoduncipce 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 ho will have
to answer for his delinquency."

MR. COBDEN AND CAPTAIN
AARON SMITH.
The following singular correspondence has been
published

" 16, Camden Cottages, Camden Town,
May 25, 1850.
" Sir,—My friend, Captain Auron Smith, has re•
quested me to wait upon you in reference to a speech of
yours, reported in the 7 imes of yesterday. I shall be
glad of an appointment for an early hour on Monday
next ;
" And remain, Sir, your very obedient servant,

" To Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., &c., LoG
ndon."ET
" 103, Westbourne-terrtkze, 1!f1ay.25, 1850.
" Sir,—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 area
stranger 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 are warranted
in interfering in the matter in question, or entitled to
any further answer from we.

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" E. Garbett, Esq." "RICHARD COIIDEN.
" 16, Cawdon 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
writing in reference to my friend, Captain Aaron Smith,
and, making it a matter of pound?, 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 language respecting my friend,Captain Aaron
Smith, which you well know to be false, and which you
also know you dare not have used in any other place
without being certain to receive personal chastisement.
"I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant,

" E. GARBETT.

"Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., &a."
" 103, Westbourne-terrace, May 29, 1850.
" Sir,—l will not allow the insulting tone of your
!etter 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 publio
meeting respecting the Borneo massacre, and should I
chance to be on th platform, he shall be told to his faoe
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. Garbett, 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 Vio•
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 be made a strong attack on
Sir Robert 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
had all 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 belore heard. The jury. there-
fore, under the direction of the Learned Judge, at once
acquitted him.
'• The trial took place on the 19th 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 of
the capture of these ships, in which he clearly shows
that what Captain Cooke stated was untrue, and the latter
party has never had the manliness to answer it or in any
manner to defend himself.
"lam 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."

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.
At a meeting of this society, held last evening, at
their rooms at Somerset Ifouce, after the exhibition
of several articles of interest, a subject of considerable
historical importance was brought under discussion.
On a former occasion a paper was read by Mr. Wick •
ham Martin, M.P., on certain nails of unusual
magnitude found near Canterbury, and in immediate
contact with human remains. It was stated by the
workmen under whose inspection the skeletons were
exhumed, that the scapula or shoulder blade of
one skeleton was pierced by a nail, which was found
in situ. Other nails of the same size were discovered
near the bones of the lower extremities, and they
were altogether five in number. Upon this an hypo-
thesis has been raised that the skeletons are those of
Roman malefactors, who expiated their crimes, as was
customary amongst that people, upon the cross. Ex-
ception to this was taken, on the ground that no written
evidence of any such practice amongst the Romans
when in this country now exists. Mr. llallatn was of
that
the absence of
question,such evidence
because
punnotisbhe.
m crucifixion, if common, would not b d
btoaypekinnehitnios oatnf e noticed
by decisiverians as in any way remarkable. Severalie
gentlemen, however, amongst whom were Mr. Wright
and Mr. Roach Smith, adduced examples of the find-
ing of similar nails in localities, and under circum-
stances, which left no doubt that they were used in the
process of cremation. The question, therefore, before
the 'Whitsuntide vacation stood thus; but last night Mr
Martin read a further note, in answer to inquiries made
at the former meeting relative to the trustworthiness
of the workman who was the informant as to the po-
sition of the nail in the shoulder of the skeleton. tie
was now said to be a person whose statement ought
to be taken with perfect confidence. This does not
seem to alter the principal point of inquiry ; for al-
lowing, which is much to be doubted, that the bones
were those of crucified persons, is there any evidence,
direct or indirect, to show that malefacto,
rs were
buried, as these seem to have been,
with; honour,
Nour
near or in ground used for ordinary sepulture
cross was found, nor any remains of wood that
have
could, as far as the evidence goes, been used
found on the site of a Rom
for any such purpose. Then bbounreisalagnrdounnadi,l s a
nwde en.
connexion with such urns as are used for the deposit
of the incinerated dust of bodies submitted to the
process of cremation. The subject is one of great
historical interest, but it rests on evidence altogether
osred
t society.
in the
It wasnorth
an-
nouncedo
Scotland,
too weak for the establishment of the point con-
tended for.
A very valuable and curious fibula of gold, and of
a form
extremely
was irbairtee to discovered
valuable
relictha t tnhoew
remains
declinede in
thev ewhosegentleman
gpiovses possession
name,
io n t !li s
in consequence of the disgraceful and arbitrary
Custom of seizing every relic of antiquity that private
enterprise exhumes from bogs or wastes. Several
instances in which the Government officers had
interfered were laid before the society, and a
proposition was made to the effect that the society,
as a body, should memorialise the Government pray-
ing for the removal of an influence which operated
so prejudicially upon the advance of antiquarian
science and historical fact. It was understood that
an immediate effort with this object was to be made
by the society, which, it must be confessed, as far as
the promotion of its specific duties are concerned, has
for too long a time continued in a state of reprehen-
sible inertness and inactivity. This is a question
which in all probability will be discussed at a future
meeting.

The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has given
6001. to the three small livings of Horsley, Oxenhall, and
Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, towards the erection of parsonage
houses.—Bath Chronicle.