The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The following is the article, for the publication of
which, in the C'orsaire, prosecution of MM. Cour-
tois and Laurent has been ordered

"A salary of 500,000 francs was abundantly suf-
ficient for the expenses of the First Consul, who com-
bined the greatest glory with the simplicity of the
manners of Washington. In our day millions are
not enough for a .President. He has already been
obliged to extend his hand, which had narrowly
escaped being rejected, and soon the emptied box will
be presented again. We must do to certain persons
the justice to say that they drink healths and smoke
with the first comer—private so'dier or General, it is
all the same to them. Napoleon felt disgust at swillers
and gluttons as well as at smokers. He was never seen
banding a cigar to a soldier, and during his reviews
there was no champagne nor grilled fowls. He was
Dot the flatterer of the soldiers, and he regaled them
only with glory. To his troops, when attenuated by
hunger, and who cried 'bread, bread,' the young
General of the army of Italy replied 'Bread ! before
eight days you shall have it and to spare.' This un-
comfortable consolation was sufficient. That bread,
so long waited for, came. But, in the mean time, the
enemy appeared. As at Malplaquet the bread was
cast away, the soldiers rushed into fire, they beat the
Austrians, and then returned gaily to eat a morsel of
barley bread moistened with spring water. Since
that time, when people were fed with glory, how
cookery has progressed! On the 18th Brumaire,
General Bonaparte, in answer to those who demanded
guarantees, cried,',.' Grenadiers ! have I ever deceived
you when I promised you victory ?' In our day,
in similar circumstances, the reply would be,
Grenadiers, have I ever deceived you when I pro-
mised you good cheer ?' In the time of the Em-
peror, to obtain a decoration, it was necessary to have
deserved it—such little importance was set on the re-
cognition of services to come. In the baggage of
Napoleon there were no barrels of crosses by way of
provision, and no shovels to distribute them. Yet,
let us not be deceived, the era of the Cresars, predicted
by a guest of the Elysee, has commenced. It has
been already remarked that soup makes the soldier.
In our day, and with perfectly liberal views, cham-
pagne, trailed fowls, and Havannah cigars form the
materiel of reviews. But, is the gratitude of a full
stomach more lively or more lasting than that of
the heart ? In their decline the Roman soldiers
touched the stomachs of their officers, and flung away
the helmet and the cuirasse which had become too
heavy for their effeminacy. In our days disregard
for discipline, and forgetfulness of glory, would be
still worse, and, what is the saddest of all, the disorder
comes from a high quarter. A society of the 10th of
December would seem to the Emperor a strange
means of government. Disorder under the appellation
of beneficence I I repeat to you that, in our days, if
the sword of Austerlitz do not end in an old curiosity
shop, it will be turned into a spit, and that of the
Elysee into a larding-pin. The buckler of Francis I.
will become a turbot dish, and his cuirasse a frying-
pan. The glorious sword of Aumale and of Ivrey,
which already fell into the hands of a cheffonier of
July, will become a bacon knife, and the column of
July be made into pots."
A letter from Lorient of the 25th inst. gives the
following description of a lately-invented bullet of a
most destructive nature :

" M. Lagrange, an apothecary, residing in this town,
has been for the last fifteen years labouring at the
preparation of a bullet of the most destructive kind.
Although it appears that he had completed his labours
for some time, he did not communicate his discovery
to the Government until within the last few days.
An experiment as to the effect produced by those
bullets has been made under the inspection of
Admirals La Susse and La Guerre, Lieutenant-
General Laplace of the Artillery, and of a
commission appointed by Government. The success
of the experiment is said to have exceeded all expec-
tation. Each bullet on striking the object against
which it was directed, exploded with a detonation as
loud as that of the gun from which it was fired, and
produced a most destructive effect. It bursts in-
stantly on striking any object which opposes resist-
ance, whether it be earth, wood, or stone. At the
conclusion of the trial the members of the commission,
addressing the inventor, said, Sir, your name ought
to be inscribed amongst the members of the Peace
Congress, for after your invention it will be impos-
sible to think of making war.' M. Lagrange s=serts
that with a gun-boat, armed with four pieces of can-
non, he could sink a ship of 120 guns in twenty mi-
nutes. lie is in tre:Ay with the Government for the
sale of his secret."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The '‘ertnan papers have telegraphic dispatches
from Hamburgh and G.penhagen of the '26th inc.
The Commander of the Danis.,ll troop) has received
instructions to prohibit the navigation on the Eyder,
in case such a measure should be recommended by
military necsities.
The Kind of Denmaile and the Prince Ferdinand
have lest Copenhlgen f,r Fieniburd, where they in-
tend to remain for a term of eight dap.

Mr. SasEAL seconded the resolution, which was
passed unanimously.
The Rev. Dr. KING proposed—" That this meeting
regards with feelings of deep regret the continuance
of the slave trade by the subjects, and even by the
connivance of the officials of Spain and Brazil ; and
this meeting is of opinion that the time has now fully
come when the honour of the British nation, as well
as the claims of righteousness and benevolence, re-
quire that our Government should insist upon the
treaties which have been entered into with Spain and
Brazil being carried into immediate effect."
H. DUNLOP, Esq., seconded the resolution. Passed
unanimously.
JOHN MACGREGOR, Esq., M.P., was then intro-
duced, and was very warmly received. He said there
had been entrusted to him a resolution, which he was
now to move for their approval. Hating slavery as
he did, earnestly desiring the suppression of the slave
traffic, and believing that the present juncture was
one peculiarly favourable for attaining that object, he
could not but feel proud that this great city had
moved in the matter, and promulgated a plan of ac-
tion, such as,would, if well carried out, go far to ren-
der certain the success of what was so desirable. The
feeling of the people of this country had long been
strongly inimical to slavery—since the period of the
last war—he meant that which terminated in 1815.
So strong was the feeling then, that one of the first
instructicns of Lord Liverpool to the British repre-
sentative of the Congress of Vienna was to secure the
consent of all the powers to issue a declaration against
the slave trade. Accordingly, in a little time a so-
lemn declaration was issued and agreed to by Austria,
England, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and France, as
well as Spain and Portugal, in which it was deter-
mined that the slave traffic should cease for ever; and
ever since that period England had been carrying on
negotiations to completely attain that object.
As far as the United States were concerned, they
had most implicitly observed their stipulations as ,
regards the trade. So had France in respect to hers,
and conjointly with Britain she had maintained the
squadron for the blockade of the African coast, in
order thereby to extinguish it. Now, with regard to
the treaty with Spain, he must say that if they had a
right to look for the bservance of faith with them by
any country, that country was Spain. She was under
the greatest obligations to England. But for the
liberal sums they had expended, and the aid they had
given her in the Peninsular war, her monarchy
would not now have been in existence. But not to
speak of that, or the assistance they had given her in
securing her independence against Don Carlos, he
might refer to the vast sums she was indebted for to
British commerce and industry. He did not speak of
the 400,000/. mentioned, which was given to indem-
nify parties who might lose by the suppression of the
trade, but to the one hundred and seventy- two mil-
lions of British capital which she owed, and which, he
thought, must be held to give them an extraordinary
claim upon her. If they were to join earnestly and
sincerely in the attempt to put down the traffic, he
certainly was of opinion that it could be much
more efficiently done by s'ationing a portion of
the squadron off the coast of Cuba, to pre-
vent the approach of the slavers, than by
keeping the whole on the coast of Africa,
with the view of thwarting their getting off. He
believed that the present Government, or at all events
the Noble Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs, was
anxious to adopt such a course. It unfortunately
happened, however, that if Lord Palmerston was to
make any move in this direction, there was a party
ready to cry out that he was desirous to involve us
in war. Now, he knew that there was no man more
anxious to preserve peace between the United King-
don: and other countries than Lord Palmerston. He
had had the honour to be employed under him for
several years upon foreign missions, and he was per-
suaded that no man could have been more anxious to
do all in his power to avoid war than he was after the
revolution of 1830. But somehow it did happen that

there was always a faction ready on every occasion to
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alarm the public, by declaring that he was going to re
volve the country in war. He (Mr. Macgregor) believed
he never would do so—(Cheers)--while he was sure,
at the same time, that he would take care to claim
the rights of British subjects in every country. He
now came to the question of Brazil, and he must con •
fess that here was a greater difficulty presented than
in the other instance. They might certainly send
the half of the African squadron to blockade the
coast of Brazil, and they thereby would do much to
prevent the importation of slaves, but such a course
would be objected to by traders, and by the mere
utilitarians. He hailed their present meeting with
great delight and hope. The resolution which he
had to propose contained a reference to their West In-
dian islands, and the pia judicial effects on them
of competition. Adhering as strongly as he had ever
done to the principles of free trade, he must say, as
regards West India distress, that to slavery, in great
part, it must be ascribed. That was the main draw-
back to the prosperity of their West India colonies.
Suppcse slavery abolished, and he had no doubt be
sides, that from the increased value of labour in Cuba
and Porto Rico, a greet encouragc merit to the free
celauial labour would take place ; it would be more
in demand, and commercial activity and success
would advance in a proportionate ratio. This remark
he thought was completely applicable as respects alike
Jamaica, Guiana, and Trinidad. It was an observa-
tion with regard to the commercial opinions he hell
as respected the policy which had been carried out
by the late Sir Robert Peel, and adhered to by the
Ministry which had succeeded that great statesman—
that virtuous and good man. Of that system of fiscal
policy, alike as it respects the West India colonies
and the country at large, of that policy he approved,
and begged to state, that while on moral and com-
mercial grounds he desired the abolition of slavery,
and regarded it as an obstacle to West Indian pros-
perity, he could never consent, because of the distress
that might prevail there, to return to the principle of
monopoly. Mr. Macgregor concluded, amid applause,
by moving the following resolution :—" That this
meeting is of opinion that the depression and distress
of our West India colonies have been greatly aggra-
vated by the non-observance of the slave-trade treaties
on the part of Spain and Brazil, and that some of the
best results anticipated from colonial emancipation
have been frustrated by the continuance of the slave
traffic."
The resolution was seconded by the Rev. G.
BIA Tic, and carried.

Mr. tame, M.P., in moving the third resolution,
said that he also felt satisfaction in meeting them this
evening, on account of a subject in some respects per-
sonal to himself. It might be in the recollection of
many whom he had now the honour cf addressing,
that during the
,last session of Parliament a motion
was tabled in the House of Commons for the purpose
of abolishing the maintenance of the squadron on the
coast of Africa. It was intimated to her Majesty's
Ministers that many of the usual supporters of the
Government were not likely to vote with them on that
occasion. The First Lord of the Treasury called a
meeting of the friends of the Government, and inti-
mated to them that if the House of Coe:mons resolved
that this squadron should be abolished they could not
carry that resolution into effect. That resolution
was lost, consequently it was not necessary that her
Majesty's Ministers should resign. As be, how-
ever, had voted in the minority, he felt that
there was some reason for him explaining his con-
duct. He fully believed that, independent altogether
of that squadron, there were other means within the
power of her Majesty's Government for abolishing
the slave trade, and one of the most efficient means
in his mind was the existence of those slave-trade
treaties which they entered into with Brazil and
Spain. He also considered that the ships employed
on the coast of Africa were totally unfitted and ill-
equipped for the purpose. On the other hand, it was
maintained that the trade would break out with in-
creased vigour if the squadron were withdrawn, that
the coast would swarm with pirates, and altogether
destroy the legitimate trade, and that all attempts
would be defeated for the civilization and Christian-
ization of Africa. Since that period the evidence re-
ferred to by Dr. King and Mr. 13lyth had appeared,
from which he found that the slave trade was alto-
gether abolished, north of the equator, to a distance
_oi_tf 2,500 miles, with the exception of the Bight of
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the beat of his belief, all the Ministers were working
out the abolition of the slave trade by the measures of
the Noble Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs—that
Noble Lord whose genius had already piloted him
through all the wiles of foreign diplomacy—and
whose heart was in the right place, as regarded
the abolition of the slave trade. One great
want in our treaties which had forcibly struck
him was having no power to punish the cap-
tain, supercargo, &c., of the slave-trader. After
having been taken, they were immediately released,
and found their way back to Rio ard Cuba ; and it
had been given in evidence, that some of these indivi-
duals had been captured by cur cruizers as often as
six times in a very short space of time. A consider-
able anti-slavery feeling now prevailed both at Rio
and Havannah, and he could not doubt that the sympa-
thies of the great maritime states of Europe, and of
the United States of America, were strong in the
same direction. The Hon. Gentleman set down by
moving the following resolution :
" That this meeting regard the prosent as a fitting
time fur bringing prominently before the British
public the continued existence of the slave trade; as
well as for enlisting the sympathies and energies of
the Governments of Great Britain, of the United
States of America, of France, of Denmark, and of
other countries which have already condemned the in-
famous traffic, in a vigorous combined effort for the
effectual suppression of a system so abhorrent to every
sentiment of religion and humanity."
Mr. R. BAIRD seconded the resolution. It was
carried.

On the motion of the Rev. Dr: SMTTII, the follow-
ing resolution was next adopted, with which the pro-
ceedings terminated :
" That this meeting adopt petitions to the Legisla-
ture, that his Lordship, the chairman, be authorised
to sign them in its behalf, and that a committee assist
his Lordship in this business, and adopt any measure
that may be necessary to attain the object of the meet-
ing."—Glasgow

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING.

Six O'CLOCK.

CESIREWITCH.
8 to 1 agst Landgrave
11 to 1 agst Bolingbroke
13 to 1 agst Russborough
13 to 1 agst Backbiter
15 to 1 agst Trouncer
16 to 1 agst Wanota
16 to 1 agst Lady Eden
20 to 1 agst Chantrey
30 to 1 agst Essedarius
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
6 to 1 agst The Italian
16 to 1 agst Loadstone
25 to 1 agst Hagley
25 to 1 agst Sysiphon
NEWMARKET TWO YRS OLD TRIENNIAL.
3 to 1 agst Aaron Smith
7 to 4 agst Hernandez
NEWMARKET THREE YRS OLD TRIENNIAL.
5 to 4 on William the Conqueror
4 to 1 agst Hardinge
DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Prime Minister
40 to 1 agst Lightfoot

LARGE SALMON.—There was caught at Saneel
fishing water, on Tuesday, a salmon which weighed 43ilbs.,
and measured in length 4 feet 3 inches, and in girth 2 feet
1 inch. :No improvement has taken place in the fishing;
the quantity taken at present is small, almost without a pre-
cedent, the prices consequently continue very high, salmon
being ls. 4d. per lb., grilse Is. ld., and trout Bd.—Berwici
Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Sarah Hawkins and Catherine Lee were charged
with having robbed a man of his watch. Michael
Haydon, an active detective officer of the City police,
was on London-bridge a few nights ago, and ob-
served the prosecutor and the two women, one of
whom stood away from the others. He expected that
the women were in a conspiracy to plunder the man,
and be followed them closely. The man soon sepa-
rated himself from the women, and the officer ascer-
tained that he had been robbed of his watch, and
pursued the two prisoners in a cab into which they
had suddenly flung themselves, directing the driver to
go on quickly in any direction. Haydon and the
prosecutor:got into the cab,-and after having repeatedly
asked the women for the watch, which they positivley
denied any knowledge of, told the cabman to • drive
with "all the lot" to the station-house. Arrived
there the prisoners stuck to the assertion that they
were as innocent as the unborn, and the female
searcher, after a very minute examination, pronounced
that they had no watch or other valuables in their
possession. This judgment was very strongly in fa-
vour of the prisoners, but Haydon, who had not only
observed the prosecutor's manner upon finding that
he had been robbed of his watch, but the agitation
and hurry of the accused, said he considered it to be
necessary that the surgeon of the police force should
be consulted upon the subject. • Accordingly, at the
Mansion-house, Mr. Childs, the medical gentleman,
undertook the office of searcher, and proved himself
well qualified fur the performance of the duty by in-
troducing to the astonished eyes of the prosecutor the
identical watch, which he declared he had found upon
the person of Sarah Hawkins. It is proper to state
that the fact of the finding by the medical officer
did not prove that the female searcher had omitted
the ordinary means of ascertaining the fact, but it
certainly showed that the assistance of a medical
searcher may be often necessary in cases of con-
cealment.
The prisoner Lee said she had never seen the other
woman before the night they were taken, and that
their acquaintanceship began as acquaintanceship
often commenced amongst those who had no place to
go to in misery. As for the watch, she never was so
much surprised at anything as at finding that her new
friend was in possession of such a thing.
Sarah Hawkins said she saw, as she was walking
along Pudding-lane, by chance, something glittering
at her feet. She picked it up, and finding that it was
a watch, and that she might be robbed of it, she hid it.
—The prisoners were committed for trial.
BOW-STREET.
Antonio 21Ioltoni, who was last week remanded on
a charge of having caused 3,000 spurious notes, re-
sembling the notes of the Lombardy Venetian Bank,
to be engraved by Mr. Lee, in Holborn, wed again
brought up fur further examination ; but Mr. Bush,
the solicitor for the prosecution, having stated that he
had been as yet unable to obtain efidence that the
notes were forgeries, beyond the testimony already
adduced, at his request the prisoner was remanded for
another w ?ek.
Mr. lIEN HY was of opinion that enough had alreedy
been proved to justify the committal of the prisoner
for trial; nevertheless, it might be desirable to make
the case more complete.
AIA RLSORO UGH- STREE T.
George Tyler, landlord of the Sun and Thirteen
Cantons, C cetle-street, Leicester-square, was sum-
moned by the police for permitting drunkenness and
disorderly conduct in his house.
From the statement of the police it appeared that
in consequence of a disturbance in the street, between
persons who came out of this house, and who got fight-
ing together and were taken to the station-house, a con-
stable was placed to watch the house, and saw persons
at three and four o'clock the same morning come out
of it. A constable proved that on going into the
house he found numerous persons, male and female,
present. The landlord was in the bar, and he was
not sober. He did rot see any one in masks come
out of the house, although he saw seven or eight
persons in masks in the street that morning.
Inspector Monckton said the defendant, although
summoned before, had not been convicted, but it was
one of the worst conducted houses in the district.
Mr. Duncombe, for the defendant, said the in-
spector had no right to make such remarks. With
respect to the charge before the Court, the defendant
kept a night-house, and, as the law stood, he had a
right to keep it open all night if he pleased. The
charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct in the
house had not been brought home to defendant.
Mr. BROUGHTON convicted the defendant in the
penalty of 405., and at the same time advised him to
thoroughly reform his system of management.
SOUTHWARK.
George Wood, switchman, in the employ of the
Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, was
charged before Mr. Ingham with having wilfully and
negligently omitted to turn certain points or switches
upon the said railway when signalled to do so, thereby
endangering the lives and limbs of persons passing
along the said railway.
Mr. Ballantine, assisted by Mr. Church, attended
on behalf of the South-Eastern Railway Company,
who were the complainants, and Mr. Sutton appeared
on behalf of the Brighton Company.
Mr. Ballantine, in stating the case, informed the
magistrate that a short time ago the two companies
dissolved partnership, and their officers were quite
distinct from each other. Considerable difficulty
was thrown in the way of the South-Eastern Com-
pany by the servants of the other, and the present
case was brought forward to ascertain where the
blame laid. The defendant was employed as switch-
man by the Brighton Company, and was stationed
at the Bricklayers' Arms Junction, and it was his
duty to attend the points for all trains which passed
along the railway. Instead of performing that
duty he neglected it, and detained a ballast
train belonging to the complainants, which was
making its way to the Bricklayers' Arms Station, and
compelled the driver to go to New Cross. The de-
fendant's conduct had placed the lives of several people
in jeopardy, as another train passed them before they
got fifty yards out of the way, and bad they crossed
the line there must have been a fearful collision. To
prevent such further difficulties arising, the directors
of the South-Eastern Railway Company made the
present charge, so that the whole circumstances might
be fully investigated. The Learned Gentleman then
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tram to New Cross there must have beenua collision. his
Witness hoisted the usual signal, and remonstrated
with defendant as to his conduct, but he answered biro
by abusive language, and told him he should stop half
an hcur for corning there. Had he crossed the line
after being so long detained they must have been cut
all to pieces, as the other train while passing actuall3
touched the lest truck. It was the defendant's duty
to have allowed him to piss instead of detaining him.
In cross-examination by Mr. Sutton, witness said
that a train bad started five minutes before, and
another wee expected, so that the line was not clear.
Charles Thurston, engine-driver in the South.
Eastern Company's employ, said that be was with the
train in question, and heard the defendant refuse to
turn the points, although repeatedly faked. It was

three miles from London-bridge to the junction which
turned off to the Bricklayers' Arms station, and the
distance could have been easily performed before any
other train passed. Witness could have crossed the
line in perfect safety bad the defendant done his duty,
but he laughed at them, and said " they were a bad
lot altogether."
In answer to the complaint, Mr. Sutton said the
defendant was exonerated from all blame by the
Brighton Railway Company. He bad only performed
his duty, and acted in accordance with the orders
given to him by his superintendent. He should be
able to show that his conduct was correct in every
way. A train had just passed, and another was due,
consequently he was justified in not allowing the bal-
last train to cross the line. His worship would see
the necessity of his acting strictly to the orders deli-
vered to him, and dismiss the complaint altogether.
The directors of the Brighton line had offered to have
the affair investigated before the Commissioners of
Railways, but the South-Eastern refused, and now
sought to punish the defendant for acting properly for
the protection of the public and the rail-
way company. The Learned Gentleman called
a number of servants attached to the Brighton Com-
pany, who said that when the complainant wanted to
cross the line a train was just due, and a dreadful
collision must have taken place. In fact, signals to
that effect were hoisted, and the complaining party
must have been aware of that circumstance. The
present case was full of spite, and ought not to have
been brought before a magistrate.
Mr. Ballantine contended that the complainant
was perfectly justified in taking the present course.
It was of vast importance to the public as well as to
the railway companies that the dispute in question
should be settled. He considered that the defendant
had acted wrongly, and ought to be punished as an
example to others.
Mr. Sutton informed the magistrate that the de-
fendant had only acted according to orders, and had
he not done so he would have been discharged from
his situation. He thought the evidence he had pro-
duced ought to be received as a complete denial to
the charge.
Considerable discussion took place between the
Learned Gentleman and the Magistrate, when the
Litter delivered his judgment at some length. He was
of opinion that the defendant had acted rightly, and
according to the orders of the railway company,
which were " that no train should be allowed to cross
the line when another i 3 just due." In performing
that duty he had most likely prevented a collision,
hich might have been attended with fatal circum-
stances. He should dismiss the complaint.