The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY

several messages from London, ordering me to stop
your message, and send Mr. Bean's message, if ready.
I informed the clerk in London that Mr. Bean was then
in the Liverpool Telegraph-office, when an order imme-
diately came from London to this effect:--' Stop Willmer
and Smith's message, and send on Bean's,' which was
done. I may also further state that your business,
during my management at the office here, met with fre-
quent interruptions by order from head- quarters.
" I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " JAMES SPALDING.
Messrs. Willmer and Smith, Liverpool."
We should observe that for this message, which occu-
pied about ninety-eight lines in the columns of the
Morning Herald, we paid the Telegraph Com-
pany about 211., and were, notwithstanding, thrown off
the wires for more than half au hour to satisfy the mo-
nopolising spirit of the company. This, you will see, is
another violation of the 51st section of the Act already
quoted ; nay more, it is another attempt to injure us in
our business, and an effort to deprive the London Press,
of which we are the correspondents, of the news until
it was published in all parts of the city by a favoured
paper. It, would be interesting to know who sent the
order to stop our message on this occasion. We doubt
not but Ur. Boys could tell. As he is fond of affording the
public all important news, he may, no doubt, supply the
required information. We represented the case to
the company, and, after the board had considered the
matter, we received a letter from the secretary, stating
that the company regretted the annoyance to which we
had been subjected, and promised that a repetition should
not again occur, as arrangements had been made where-
by all messae,es would be transmitted in the order in
which they were received. For a time this regulation
wai partially acted upon, but it was only for the purpose
of warding off an action at law and public exposure,
which we then threatened.
"9. The third case of delay in the transmission of
our messages to which we shall allude is one so singularly
monstrous and unjustifiable that all loyal men will de-
precate and despise. Yea, even the Minister who holds a
large stake in the company, must feel ashamed of the base
conduct of his officer. On Saturday, the 30th of June last,
a message sent to us from our London office, stating that
an attempt had been made to assassinate the Queen,
reached Liverpool at seventeen minutes past nine P.M.,
but was not delivered to us till halt past seven s..st. on
the following Monday. The reason assigned for the
non-delivery on Saturday night was, that our office was
closed. The private residence, however, of Mr. Will-
mer was posted on all the doors, so that the messenger
could have easily found it, especially as he had more
than once been to both Mr. Wilimer's and Mr. Smith's
private residences. The excuse of the company was,
therefore, paltry, and, as in the preceding cases, proves
that their promise as regards instantaneous communica-
tions is a mockery, a delusion, and a snare, unequalled
in the annals of business.
" 10. On the 27th of July last year a hoax was played
upon us by fictitious news from the south of Ireland
being handed to us for publication in the London morn-
ing papers. The news was of a very astounding de-
scription, and proved to be utterly untrue; but that fact
is quite immaterial to the case at present. Upon taking
it to the Electric Telegraph-office the clerks said the
wires were engaged on their own message, but on seeing
the news sent to us they agreed to forward it at once to
the Morning Herald without charge, on the condition
that they might afterwards use it themselves. This
arrangement, to save time, we consented to; the condi-
tions, however, were entirely broken by the company,
for the intelligence was first made known in Capel-
court, afterwards to Sir George Grey, in Downing-
street, and at eleven o'clock was delivered at the Morn-
ing Herald office, though it had been given to them at
Liverpool at a quarter-past seven. So much for good
faith

L. Again, when the verdict was given upon Mr.
Smith O'Brien's last trial, we procured the intelligence
by special messenger from Dublin and Holyhead, and
having reached Crewe, where the company have a sta-
tion, our reporter commenced to have the intelligence
telegraphed to London. It was late, and we were
anxious to get it into the first editions of the papers.
The message had to be transmitted through Manches-
ter; and when about half finished the reporter was sur-
prised to hear an order from the office, Stop
,W. and
S.'s message, and send the Company's own. This,
however, by his peremptory remonstrance, he prevented
being done; but we found next day that the company,
resolved not to be thwarted by our greater activity, had
delayed the delivery of the message to our agent in
London until they had delivered their own version of the
news to the whole of the morning papers, and who had
agreed to pay them for it.
" We have now noticed a few of the many cases in
which this company have either
" 12. Wilfully impeded the transmission of our mes-
sages to the London press,
13. Or else attempted to impair their efficiency by a
delay in their delivery.
"It would be easy to multiply them to a much
greater extent; in fact, were we to notice in detail all
the cases of complaint which we have had to make, the
one-half of your double• sheeted journal would not con-
tain them. Those now given will, we suppose, suffice
for the present; and should Messrs. Fourdrinier and
Boys, or their master, Mr. Ricardo, desire more, we will
not fail to supply them with fifty other instances equally
damning as regards the
" 14. Disgraceful tricks of the Lothbnry officials.
" But it is not only of the delays of the transmission
and delivery of our messages that we complain; we have
also been subjected to extreme annoyance and incon-
venience by the very inefficient manner in which they
have been transmitted to and from London.
" 15. Errors of the grossest kind have been made,
words left out so as to render the sense incomplete, and
in cases where cypher has been adopted others substi-
tuted, which, when translated, had an entirely opposite
meaning to that intended.
" You will, no doubt, be surprised - hen we tell you
that in messages of twenty-seven or thirty letters it has
not been an uutrequent occurrence to have four, five, and
sometimes six mistakes. Even no later than Monday
night last we received a message from London, in which
the company's officer, for reasons best known to him-
si if, substituted the word allowances for annoyances,
thus entirely altering the sense of the message, and ren-
dering it perfectly useless, notwithstanding they charged
10s. for their services.
" We must not omit to state that Parliament granted
t,) the Electric Telegraph Company an Act to communi-
cate intelligence.
16. At uniform rates, and
" 17. Without preference to any party.
" Their present price from Liverpool to London is
over sixpence per word. It is reported that to somels
papers they charge Is. for every nine words, others .
per line, and others 6d. per line. To the Glasgow Daily
Mail they supply more than a column of news per day
for 2001. a year. The North British Daily Mail for the
same intelligence 3001. The Bull news room is supplied
with all intelligence for 1501. per annum, whilst the
Liverpool Exchange do not get more than half the quan-
tity given to the Glasgow papers, although they pay
3001. a year.
"The foregoing statements just mede will afford you,
Sir, and the London Press, a glimpse into the working
of this gigantic scheme of monopoly.
" 18. They will convince you that you can have no
security that your interest will be guarded, and that,
notwithstanding the utmost watchfulness, activity, and
zeal of your several correspondents throughout the
world, you will be baffled should the company have a
game of their own to play.
19. They will satisfy you that schemes the most
shameful, and such as persons pretending to the title of
gentlemen should detest and abhor, have been resorted
to in order that the Telegraph Company may enjoy an
illegal monopoly, and keep the public and the press at
their mercy, so far as the promulgation of all late and
mportant news is concerned.
" We are, Sir, yours respectfully,
" WILLMER AND SMITH."

The Learned Counsel was proceeding in the state.
ment of a great number of instances of blunders and de.
lays on the part of the company in the transmission 6
messages intrusted to them when our report left.
The case is likely to occupy the Court the whole 6
the day.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice WILDE
and Justices CRESSWELL, Wir.masis, and TALFOURD.)
LANDLIFT V. STEVENS.
Mr. MASON., on behalf of the defendant, applied for a
rule to show cause why the award of certain arbitrators,
appointed by order of the Court to decide all matters
connected with this case should not be set aside, on the
ground that no notice of the meetings of the arbitrators
bad been given to the defendant, nor any opportunity
afforded him of entering into his defence. It ap-
peared that the defendant, a merchant in London,
ordered from the plaintiff, a manufacturer of oil cakes
in Belgium, two cargoes of oil.cake of the best descrip-
tion, t be made of Alexandrian seed, which was re-sold
by him to a Mr. Crofts, who, however, returned the first
cargo on delivery, all, ging that it was not made of
Alexandrian seed, but of the common description,
and also refused to charter a vessel to Belgium to
fetch the second cargo. The first cargo was ultimately
disposed of at Yarmont at a loss of 1301., and the re-
mainder in Belgium at a loss of 2001. Upon this the
plaintiff required that the defendant should make good
the loss of 3301., and an action was brought by him to
recover it; but by consent of both parties arbitrators
were appointed and the matter referred to them. The
defence set up was, that the defendant bad ordered the
oil-cake merely as a commission agent, and not on his
own account; and again, that the goods were not of the
description ordered. The arbitrators, however, on the
correspondence between the parties being laid before
their, gave their award against the defendant, taking
the first point merely into their consideration, and
afforded the defendant no opportunity of proving the
second part of his defence. It was upon these grounds
that the application for a rule was brought.
Rule granted.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
QUEEN V. JUSTICES OF RUMSEY MARSH.
Mr. CREASEY applied to the Court for a rule calling
upon the Justices ot Rumsey Marsh to show cause why
a conviction and an order ot session should not be
quashed. On the 6th if March a man named Tillhurst
was convicted, before Messrs. Blake and Plater, two of
the aforesaid justices, as a " a rogue and vagabond," for
having neglected to support his wife and family, whereby
they had become chargeable to the parish of Dine-
church. The man appealed against this conviction; and
on the 3d of April the appal came on fur hearing at the
Ramsey Marsh Session, before the two convicting ma-
gistrates and two other justices, Mr. Blake acting as
chairman. The sessions confirmed the conviction, but as
the two convicting magistrates were interested parties,
and had therefore no right to act on the trial of the ap-
peal, their order was clearly illegal—a dictum established
by "The
90M C§itit
Quell v. Justices of liertfordatire," and many

Mr. Justice COLERIDGE asked if the magistrates were
liable for costs?
Mr. CaEASEY did not think they were, but had the
conviction been quashed, they would have been liable to
an action for false imprisonment. Besides a technical
objection which appeared upon the warrant of commit-
ment, there was the additional ground of objection that
the two convicting magistrates were ratepayers of the
parish of Dinechurch, to which the prisoner's family had
become chargeable, and hence they were interested in
maintaining the conviction.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—You may take a rule.
Rule nisi accordingly.
IN RE AN ATTORNEY.
Mr. ROBINSON applied to the Court for a rule calling
upon an attorney of the court to show cause why he
should not be struck off the rolls.
The application was supported by a couple of affida-
vits, which stated that the attorney in question had been
concerned in a couple of cases which had bean tried at
the York assizes. Some of the witnesses applied to him
for payment of their expenses, but he told them he could
not comply with their request, as he was without funds;
and yet it would seem that he had included their ex-
penses in his bill of costs, which bad beon taxed, and had
actually made an affidavit, swearing that the witnesses
attended the assizes for only one case, whereby he in-
' duced the Master to allow expenses in the two cases
which had been tried.
Application granted.

tine Stakes, and the Recei,

Mr. lierrymim or Louis

place.
For the Cup from thirty
run, to be selected from the
yrs. st. lb.
Coßingwood a, 9 2
Cossack
Peep-o'• Dayßoy 6 9 01
Dough • 5 8 5,
John Cosser 5 8

?t filly the Mostyu Stake.
'apoleon filling the second

;o thirty-four prolmbly
following:—

yrs. st. lb.
Mounseer
The Knout 4 6 8
Grief
Keleshca
Gaffer Green

Ellerdale . 6 8 3 Idle Boy 4 6 0
Essedarius
Priestess
Glauca 4 7 5 The Miner
Woolwich
Westow
Fogleman
Osterley
Miss Ann 4 7 0 Captain Grant... 3 5 0
Woodlark
Rhesus 4 612 St. George
Cockermouth ~. 5 610 Sprite filly
Chantrey
I consider those who will have an) thing to do with
the result will he Collingwooe, Cossack, Ederdale, Ease-
darius, Osterley, Chantrey, Glatico, Gulliver, Captain
Grant, St. George, and Cockermouth; and sifting rheas
should place—
OSTERLEY or CIIANTREY 1
ELLERDALE
COSSACK . ....
ESSEDARIUS
Collingwood and the rest of my front division being
well up.
Bee-hunter will win the Dee Stakes, Cantab second ;
Mickleton or Sir Philip the Cestican; and Pirouette or
Anchorite the Wirral' Stakes.

May 6, 1850.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED).

NEW MONTHLY.

An unusual variety characterises the contributions
to the New Monthly for May, and sustains the re-
vived reputation fur excellence recently imparted to
it by its accomplished editor, Mr. Harrison Ains-
worth. Leigh Hunt, who, though not "so old," is
yet among the living veterans of our literature, Leigh
Hunt, the evergreen, " ever joyous, ever young,"
sings, in his clear and resounding voice, an
" Ode to the Sun," in many parts beautiful. J. E.
Carpenter, in fainter but melodious accents, carols a
hymn of greeting to " the merry month of May."
" Anatole de Salis," the opening paper, is an agreeable
story of the late French Revolution, containing among
other things a rather petulant sneer at M. de Lamar-
tine, in spite of which, we, nevertheless, found its chap-
ters readable. "Railways "is an able though incomplete
criticism on the work lately written by Dr. Dionysius
Lardne r. Dudley Costello has an amusing trifle entitled
" L'Homme Propose," and Mr. Soapey, Sponge is as
rollicking as ever. Among the miscellaneous con-
tributions, moreover, we should particularise Charles
Hervey's " Habitue's Note Book," and Nicholas
Michell's "Hester Somerset," with other papers in
their respective proportions lively and entertaining.

AINSIVORTIf S.
Four additional chapters of Mr. Ainsworth's
popular romance of " Guy Fawkes," re-
printed in the present number, with an-
other of the well-known illustrations by George
Cruikshank, bring the narrative down to the last night
spent at Ordsall Hall by Viviana. Thomas Roscoe
contributes a brief but striking paper, curiously desig-
nated " The Shadow Shower." Julia Addison charms
us with a delightful little tale called "Florence
Hamilton," told in her old agreeable way. E. P.
Rowsell scarifies a certain class of most abominable
bores in a ',amen Blanchard-like essay on " Talkative
Individuals." Among the other imaginative contri-
butions to the present number of Ainsworth are the
" Confederates,' " Valdarno," and the continuation of
the romance of " Jacob Van Der Ne63s," by Madame
Paalzow.

LATTER-DAY PAAIIPHLETS. No. V.
Stump Orator.
A world of wisdom has been condensed in these
fifty pages by Thomas Carlyle, and well would it be
for the multitude if they would forego for the
time being any covert antipathy for the rugged-
ness of style of our great thinker—one of
the strongest and manliest thinkers of the
century—and pore over the weighty truths
contained in his present utterances. Mr. Carlyle
conceives that much of the evil now pressing upon
this generation is attributable to the everlasting volu-
bility of our talkers. All of us, moreover, he regards
as more or less cursed with the propensity to speak,
to hold forth, to jabber and declaim ad infinitum.
" Tongue " he looks upon as the malady of the age ;
and he coincides implicitly with a friend of his who
suggests that for the benefit of the world the tongue
should be cut out of the mouth of every new • born child,
so as to doom to dumbne3s an entire generation. The
gist of the whole argument is in favour of action in
preference to declamation. llence the title of the
essay—" Stump Orator." It closes in mournful
tones—tones of very sad earnestness.

lIARRISO LV AINSWORTH' S ROMANCES.
Vol. VII. St. James's.
Gradually and almost imperceptibly the cheap re-is-
sue of the works of this popular novelist have swollen
into goodly proportions—already ranging on the book-
shelf to the extent of seven compact and comely little
volumes. The largeness of the circulation which the
series attained almost from the first period of its
commencement, is a sufficient testimony that the re-
publication was welcome to the multitude ; and the
extraordinary cheapness of the monthly instalments
was of itself almost enough to secure purchasers, even
if the celebrity of the writings had not been an
ample temptation. " St. James's ; or, the Court
of Queen Anne," is compressed, certainly, by
small, but at the same time, by very clear
and readable type, into the compass of the
seventh volume. And those who are at all acquainted
with the prominent features of this purely historical
romance will find in that simple announcement a
large and persuasive attraction. In " St. James's,"
as in several others of the fictions of Mr. Ainsworth,
as, for example, in " Crichton," or again, as in
"look wood," the prose is decorated at intervals with
snatches of song such as prove the cipacity of our
romancist to render his ideas in the form of lyrical
poetry. Instance this, the stirring stanzas
" Malbrook to the Wars is Coming," the humorous
and satirical lines on the " Boots of Malbrook," and
the capital song of " King Frog and Queen Crane"—
" Old King Frog, he swore beger!
Croakledom cree! cre*kledom croo!
That he with Queen Crane would go to war,
Blusterum boo! thrusterem through!"
But apart from all the charms of lyric and romance,
as combined in the books and chapters of ".St.
James's," the work is valuable as presenting a vivid
and accurate picture of English society, and especially
of London society, in the reign of Atossa.

I-lousEor COMMONS.—The estimated amount re-
quired to fi ish the (.flicial houses for the Speaker and offi-
cers of the house of Commons, is 30,1001.; the expense
already incurred for them having been 74,0001 Since the
year 1835-6, there has been pale in rent for the tempoiary
official residence of the Speaker, and in allowances for rent
to the other officers of the House of Commons, a sum of
27,1961. I ls. sd.
FOREIGN VESSELS.—From a return of the sums
paid fur the difference of rates and charges due for foreign
vessels;admitted into the ports of the United Kingdom (under
reciprocity treaties), at the same rate of charge as British
♦essels, it appears that the amount paid by the consolidated
duties of customs in the year ending 31st December, 1849,
was 28,580/. The amount paid up to 81st December, 1848,
was 702,2931., making a total paid under reciprocity treaties
of 730,8731.

COURT or LIEUTENANCY.—A very numerous
meeting of the members of the Commission of Lieutenancy
took place on Saturday last at three o'clock, for the purpose
of voting an address of congratulation to the Queen upon
the birth of the infant Prince. Amongst those present were
Sir Henry Pelly, Sir Moses Montefiore, Sir George Carroll,
Aldermen Thompson, Wilson, Humphery, Hooper, Musgrove,
W. Hunter, Carden, Sidney, Challis, Sheriff Lawrence, Mr.
Hankey, the Governor of the Bank of England, Deputies
Britten, Obbard, Bedford, Lott, Mr. Cornelius Wilson, Mr.
James Bentley, Mr. W. Hughes, Mr. Walford, &c. Alder-
man Wilson was unanimously called to the chair—an honour
which, he assured the Commissioners, he felt the highest
gratification at receiving upon such an auspicious occasion.
He congratulated the country upoa the excellent state of
health enjoyed by the Sovereign, who was becoming every
year more and more dear, if possible, to her people. Alder-
man Musgrove moved the address after a few words ex-
pressive of the feeling diffused amongst the people of this
great empire at the event. Sir Henry Pelly seconded the
motion, which was carried amidst acclamations. The Cotirt
then adjourned.
A MisEß's SToa,E.—On Saturday last, by the
death of Alexander Dempster, flax-dresser, Brechin, one of
those anomalies in human nature, " a storing of wealth fer
another's use," was discovered here. The Brechin mi
ser wri
about 56 years of age; for about 20 years, and up to. with
a few days of his death, he denied himself, evenH during the
storms of winter, the luxury of fire and light. e was sup-
plied with his daily food, which was of the scantiest and
meanest description, by a neighbour, but he slept in his own
house. After a few days' illness, Dempster unexpectedly
over hum
died on Saturday; and, in looking is h
ling, there were discovered 1251. 10s. in silver, 36/. in gold,
and also nine 11. notes, which were stuck behind the window
shutters. Besides the above, there have also hcendiacovered
bank cheques amounting to about I,uoo/., and, with other
property, the old man is said to have been worth about 1,500/.
—Montrose Standard.
Jackson, the " American Deer, " has been running
a race against two horses, at Bingamon, in the United
States. The horses were to trot ten miles against the man's
five miles and a half; the horses performed their distance in
29 min. 4 sec. ; Jackson his in 29 rein. 51 secs. ; the man
thus losing by 47 seconds. The stakes were a thousand
doll ors.
FIRES AT EXETER.-011 Thursday, the cottage
ornee of Kent Kingdom, Esq., and on Friday, Mount Wear
House, the resisience of John Follett, Esq., both in the
neighbourhood of Exeter, were accidentally burned to the
ground.—Eieter Gazette.
THE WHEAT Caors.—The parish of Willingham
is suffering severely by the wire-worm, many farmers are
engaged ploughing up several acres and planting potatoes;
should the cold weather continue we are afraid many far-
Para Will suffer to a great eztent,Catatidge Chronicle.

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