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London, England, 1850-05-20 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1850.

overawed by the reverend gentleman's firm tone and decisive
manner- The crowd, however, composed, as is usual, of
" navvies" and some of the lowest characters, finding that the
brutal sport which they were enjoying was likely to conic to
a close, cemmencei assailing the reverend gentleman with
hooting and hissing, threatening to knock him down and
settle him if he persisted in interrupting their
sport. Nothing daunted, however, by their threats and
violent conduct, Mr. Bull boldly faced some of those
who were most vociferous in their declaration of doing
him some bodily injury, and told them that, although
he knew himself alone and unsupported, he cared not the
least for their threats, and, daring any one to lay a
thlger on him, he boldly and firmly told them that he was
resolved not to leave the field till the men had put on their
clothes, and, the field being cleared, an end was Ott to such
a disgraceful proceeding. The mob, seeing how determined
the rev. gentleman was, and overawed by his bold and un-
flinching bearing, immediately dispersed, some of those who
had been most violent in their threats and abuse declaring

that he was a brave fellow, and that no one should touch or
molest him. Such courageous conduct is worthy of imita-
tion, although in his praiseworthy endeavour to put a stop
to so brutalising an exhibition the rev. gentleman ran a
great personal risk. A question, naturally arises, where were
the police ? .Northampton Herald.
TRINITY TERM.—On Wednesday next Trinity
term the last before the long vacation—will commence, on
which day the law offices will be opened, having been closed
on Saturday for the holidays. According to the list of arrears
in the several law courts, there is an increase of nearly ninety
cases, compered with the commencement of Easter Term
last. In the Court of Queen's Bench the present arrears
number 150, in the Common Pleas 46, and in the Exchequer
90. In the Court of Queen's Bench there are of special cases
and demurrers 7 for judgment and 46 for argument, whilst in
the new trial paper there is 1 for judgment and 102 for argu-
ment. In the Court of Common Pleas there are 3 enlarged
rules in the remanet paper, 7 for new trials, 11 matters
standing for judgment, and 25 demurrers entered for argu-
ment. In the Exchequer there are 7 rules in the peremptory
paper, 10 special cases for argument, and 7 demurrers for
argument, besides 19 matters standing for the judgment of
tke Court, and 47 rules nisi in the new trial paper. At the
commencement of Easter Term the arrears in the Queen's
Bench numbered 130, in the Common Pleas 31, and in the
Exchequer 43 they now reach to nearly 300, exclusive of
Crown cases in the Court of Queen's Bench.

MONUMENTAL TABLETS FOR THE POOR.—Earthen-,
ware or terracotta tablets, impressed by moveable types,
might be specially adapted for the purpose. It would still
more simplify and cheapen the process if the constant and
formal part of the inscription were stereotyped. The rest
only would have to be supplied as it was wanted. The in-
scribed pottery of Pompeii has made thousands wonder how
the ancients missed the art of printing. That pottery, and
still more that of Egypt and Babylon, proves how durably it
preserves the records committed to ite keeping. The idea of
and
elegance
expense. What is par-
ornamentation could
ticularly new in this project is the application of moveable
type for the purpose of impressing inscriptions in the soft
clay, afterwards to be rendered durable by baking, for as to
impressing inscriptions on the clay and then baking them;
the Babylonish bricks and cylinders testify to a considerable
antiquity, It is curious, also, that the idea of the application
of moveable type should follow—as in the case of printing—
after the first process had been so long practised. - Builder.
AN INFORMER OUTWITTED:The driver of a coach
which journeys between a distant city. and Bath, last week
received a hint from the ostler of an inn in the suburbs of
the latter city that a common informer was seated on the
roof of his coach. Conscious that he had exceeded his
licensed number the knight of the whip resigned the ribands
to the ostler, and hastened to the magistrates, laid an infor-
mation against himself, was fined 51., and received back one-
half (21. 10s.) as the informer's fee. Great was the chagrin
of the common informer on presenting himself before the
bench, for a summons, to find that he had been forestalled.—
Bristol Mercury.
GARDENERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. -- On
Wednesday the anniversary festival of this charity was held
at the London Coffee-home, Ludgate-bill. This is one of the
most modern of the various charities connected with the
trade of the metropolis, its establishment dating back only
some dozen years. As stated in the report, it owed its
origin to a few private individuals, who, having seen with
regret that gardeners as a class, from the smallness of their
wages and their peculiar avocations, were generally unable
to make a provision for their old age, and who, after a life
spent in a diligent, active, and faithful service, were reduced
to many unforeseen necessities, instituted this charity in
1838 to provide for this class of men and their widows. In
a short time the committee were enabled from the subscrip-
tions received to place 34 pensioners upon their funds, and to
establish a reserve fund, which now amounts to upwards of
2,000/., invested in Government Securities. One feature in
the charity is that those who are likely to become its recipi-
ents are encouraged to contribute to its funds, while they are
in a position to do so, by a rule which gives to gardeners
who may have contributed for 15 years, and who after that
period become destitute, the first claim upon the institurion.
On this occasion the chair was filled by the Earl of Carlisle,
who was supported by H. T. Hope, Esq., M.P., H. Pownall,
Esq., J. Paxton, Esq., Dr. Lindley, and others of the stewards.
The chairman detailed the objects of the institution, and ap-
pealed for further support, stating at the same time that,
although there were twenty applicants for relief, the state of
the funds would allow them to elect only two. The amount
of subscriptions reported by the secretary during the evening
was nearly 4001., in addition to which 166/. 19s. was an-
nounced as received for the sale of a collection of plants given
by the Duke of Northumberland.
AN ACCOMPLISHED HORSEWOMAN.—AS Miss Gard-
ner, sister of Mrs. Hannington, jun., was taking exercise on
horseback near Kemp Town, shortly before ten o'clock .on
Tuesday morning, the groom's horse stumbled and threw
him ; and the horse on which Miss Gardner was riding took
fright and ran off at a fearful rate into Brighton, proceeding
down the Marine Parade at not less than twenty miles an
hour. Fortunately, the young lady kept her seat, showing
at the same time her intrepidity and excellent horsemanship.
The horse passed the Albion Hotel at the top of his speed,
and taking the pavement in front of Mr. Shaw, the confec-
tioner's, and at the back of the Royal York Hotel, galloped
into Pool Valley, and without at all checking his speed
dashed into East-street, to the great alarm of the persons
who were passing at the time. The animal here turned to
the right, and ran along the pavement on the west side of
East-street, till it reached Mrs. Leppard's house, where it
was suddenly stopped by the young lady's forehead coming
in contact with the blind, when some person caught hold of
the horse's reins. The heroic lady then dismounted, and
went into Mr. Greenin's shop. To say that she was not
alarmed would be, of course, out of the question ; but, per-
haps, no female under similar circumstances ever displayed
more fortitude. Having taken a draught of water, and
thanked the persons who had come to her assistance, she
gathered up her riding habit, and walked to Mr. Hanning.
ton's, as if' nothing had occurred. We understand that ;her
forehead is bruised. The groom was considerably hurt.
Brighton Gazette.

HENUT-ON -THAMES REGATTA.--The great aquatic
meeting at Henley-on-Thames, at which many gentlemen
from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and other
great aquatic clubs, are expected to take a very prominent
part, is appointed for the 14th and 15th of June. The entries
are to be made on or before the 4th of June with Mr. Nash,
the hon. secretary, at Henley.

DEATH OF SIR JAMES FLOWER, BART.—We have
to record the demise of this baronet, for many years a mem-
ber of the Lower House. He expired on the 17th instant, at
his seat, Mill-hill, Hendon, Middlesex, aged fifty-flve. The
deceased gentleman contested the representation of Thetford,
in 1841, with the Earl of Euston, now Duke of Grafton, and
a double return was the result. n petition, Sir James was,
however, declared the sitting member. In politics he was a
Tory, He withdrew at the last general election, and was
succeeded by the Earl of Euston, son to his former antago-
nist. The deceased was the son of the first baronet, whom
he succeded in 1834, by the daughter and co-heiress of Joseph
Squire, Esq., of Portsmouth. He married, in 1816, the
daughter of Sir Walter Sterling, Bart., of Faskew ; but by
that lady does not leave any issue. The deceased gentleman
filled the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1838, and was
appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant of Herefordshire in 1843.
The first baronet was a leading alderman'of the city of Lon-
don, and filled the office of Lord Mayor in IEO7, the year of
the Jubilee. The baronetcy now becomes extinct, and the
family property will fall to some of the female branches. The
estates are situate in the counties of Middlesex, Oxon, Here-
ford, and Norfolk.
THE CONVICT ANNETTE AlyEns.—This criminal,
who was convicted at the Old Bailey, in 1848, of the murder
of Henry Ducker, a guardsman, by whom she had been
seduced, by shooting him in St. James's Park, and sentenced
to death by the Lord. Chief Baron, was, upon the commuta-
tion of that sentence, and the substitution of the punish-
ment of transportation fur life, ordered by the Secretary of
State to be imprisoned in the Westminster Bridewell for the
space of two years. That period having expired on Satur-
day, the prisoner was removed from the Bridewell to the
Millbank Penitentiary, preparatory to the sentence of trans-
portation being carried into effect, and she will be amongst
the next batch of convicts sent to Van Diemen's Land. liar
health is now much improved ; but during the first part of
her imprisonment she suffered very much, and was con-
tinually in the deepest grief and melancholy. It was at one
time thought that her reason was affected; but the authori-
ties have satisfied themselves that such is not the case.
INRUEST
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JAMES SU-
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before Saturday
lGreat Cumberland-street, Hyde Park, the private residence
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of Major-General Sir James Sutherland, aged 66, of the
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Hon. East India Company's service. It appeared that the
gallant officer, who has seen a great deal of service in India,
•
had enjoyed perfect health up to Wednesday last, when he
had invited a large number of friends to dinner and an even-
ing party. He was giving instructions to his butler with
respect to the wines in his drawing-room, and Lady Suther-
land was standing near him. He suddenly grasped his lady's
shoulder, and instantly fell to the ground. Dr. Edwards, a
surgeon in the neighbourhood, was sent for, and immediately
attended, but life had become extinct in a few minutes.
On making a post mortem examination, a clot of blood was
found on the heart, which was the cause of death. There
was also disease of the kidneys. Verdict—
" Natural Death.'
ARTISTS' GExERAT, BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.-

On Saturday
evening an amateur performance by artists
took place, at the St. James's Theatre,.for the benefit of this
valuable institution. We were happy to find the theatre so
crowded by so highly
respectable an audienc-
e. The per-
formance, as a whole, reflected great credit on the gentle-
men who volunteered their services; indeed, there were
scarcely any of those blemishes and hitches which so often
spoil the effect of amateur performances. The first piece was
Jerrold's Rent Day, the characters sustained by Mr. Topham,
Mr. Tenniel, Mr. Frank Holl, Mr. Hammerton, Mr. Angell,
Messrs. W. and John Wilson, MD. J.
—. Wingfield, Mr. C.
E. Stanley, and Kr. P. W. Elen. These amateurs, were
assisted by two ladies, Miss Tellet and that very intelligent
and gracefull actress Miss Cooper. The play was performed
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immense laughter by his humorous singing
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" Lord Bateman."
BROMPTON HOSPITAL.—On Friday evening a nu-
merous meeting of the Board of Management was held at
this institution; Major Lyon in the chair. The routine bu-
siness having transpired, the " Special Building Extension
Fund" was adverted to, and progress reported. The sum re-
quired for the so-much-desired completion of the building is
10,000/. The subscription has been opened in a satisfactory
manner. The first list of stewards for the approaching anni •
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LITERATURE.
SIN AND SORROW; A Tale. 3 Vols.

Theluithor of "King Arthur" has beautifully de-
scribed as the triple bond of all humanity—
" Three truths unite the children of the sod—
All love, all suffer, and all feel a God."
The same words might be applied to the title
of these volumes. Sin and sorrow are
unhappily as common to man as is the air he
breathes. Hence the subject of this work is essen-
tially one of universal interest, and the manner in
which it has been treated is such as to render the
book as valuable in a moral point of view as it is
beautiful and deeply interesting as a tale. In em-
ploying the word interesting, we do not apply it so
much to the plot of the story as to the portrayal of its
characters. With regard to the main incident of the
narrative, the " sin,' which is the cause of all the
"sorrow" so vividly and so pathetically detailed, it
might perhaps have been avoided with advantage, and
the many and varied beauties of the whole composition,
and the most excellent lessons which it so forcefully
inculcates would, in that case, have had a better
chance of finding favour in the eyes of a
greater multitude of readers. But as it is, in a
moral point of view, the incident alluded to in no
way derogates from the value of the work. On the
contrary, never was sin more sinlessly described, and
never was sorrow more effectively shown forth as its
immediate and inevitable consequence. Not only
does the reader of this novel find in its pages no
seductive pictures of vice, but, on the contrary, while
he is led to abhor its commission and to shudder at

its consequences, he is also, and in the most alluring
manner, made acquainted by example with the
beauty and sweetness of virtue, and he is likely to
close the third volume a wiser and a better man.
We have already intimated that the author
might have chosen a happier theme, and we might
also find fault with the too complicated manner in
which a very simple story is set forth ; but having
said thus much in censure of the work, we cannot
too highly eulogise its style and sentiments. The
spirit which pervades the whole is one which, for us,
is capable of rendering any theme whatsoever attrac-
tive—a spirit of universal and unaffected charity.
Why we so especially appreciate and admire the
lessons set forth in these volumes is because the
charity which they inculcate, both by precept and
example, is of an essentially practical nature—a sort
of benevolence of which there is much need
at the present day both in public and private. Of
theoretical' charity we have enough, and more than
enough, but such self-abnegation as is here exhibited
in Lady Emily, or such :continual kindness in appa-
rent trifles as is practised by the joyous Fanny Evelyn
is unhappily, not too commonly visible in the world.
Ultimately the sinful husband of the virtuous and
sorrowful Lady Emily is redeemed from his guilty
career, and confesses that his wife " has fulfilled her
mission, and won by love and a spotless example."
" I have seen in you," he says, " that religion was
more than a name and a dogma. I have seen an ex-
ample of pure, unselfish love, whose existence I never
believed. I have seen you bear my unreason-
able irritation—my apparent alienation—without
a frown of anger or a word of reproach. The faith
I had despised as a prejudice I now see is a reality,
and truth." In this and in other passages unneces-
sary to quote is contained instruction and encourage-
ment for the wives of England as excellent as any
that Mrs. Ellis ever penned. In fact the triumph of
Lady Emily is only an illustration of the saying of
the Apostle as to how those who obey not the word
" may be won by the conversation of the wives."
The style of the whole narration is singularly beau-
tiful, and it is very evident that the sentiments ex-
pressed by the writer are all genuine and heartfelt.
We might cull from these pages a vast number of
beautiful thoughts and truthful observations, of which
the following, taken almost at random, are a specimen :
A FACT TOO OFTEN FORGOTTEN.

" As in the external world, nature has the good and
the ornamental so marvellously mixed—the fragrant
flower with the teeming wheat—beautiful colours and
nutritious food, so is the work of man this great model
must not be lost sight of ; and we aro bound not only to
labour, that the pressing wants and severe sufferings of
our brother man may be relieved, but we must hail all
that extends to the poorest and lowest those innocent
joys and pleasures which we ourselves receive and feel,
as the loving gifts of our Father in Heaven."

LOVE.
"In Marie Augustine was displayed all that love
could do for a woman. It did for her all that it was in-
tended when Eve was placed in the garden of Eden.
She had neither sought adulation nor flattery—neither
riches nor ease—neither rank nor a palace. She had
sought a temple for her worship—a shrine where she
might deposit her inmost thought—an altar where she
might sacrifice herself."

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On the 14th the House adjourned over Wed-
nesday, for the celebration of the Queen's birthday.
On Thursday the 16th, the Marriages Bill was very
near being made an end of, through what must have
been a want of forecast on the part of its conductors ;
being saved from being thrown out on the motion for
going into Committee, by only 42 against 40.
In Committee a strenuous effort was made to eject
the clause to legitimize the offspring of past marriages.
A legal notability challenged the House to produce a
precedent for such proceeding, and declared it mon-
strous and utterly unheard-of. A lay Member, with
no knowledge beyond general recollections of English
' history, intimated across the House that he would
produce a precedent. Being a sort of Pariah in the
House, it was only with great perseverance, and after
all effect of immediate answer had gone by, that he
was able to adduce his precedent. It consisted of the
Statutes pro and contra on the subject of priests' mar-
riages in the times connected with the Reformation.
The next day he got the assistance of counsel, who
speedily disinterred for him the most complete mass
of precedent which imagination could devise. If a
playwright in one of those interesting dramas where
a virtuous lawyer acts as the deus ex machinii, had fa-
bricated according to his own will and pleasure, it
could not have been surpassed.
31 Henry 8, cap. 6, enacts that religious persons
being priests, or that have vowed religion at 21 years of
age, shall not marry. Cap. 14 of the same, is "An
Act for abolishing Diversity in Opinions." Enacts that
if any priest after the 12th day of July do marry or
contract matrimony, he shall be deemed and adjudged a
felon, and suffer pains of death, &c., and forfeit all his
lands and goods.
A succeeding section enacts, that if any person who
is or hath been a priest before this present Parliament,
hath married &c., such marriage shall be void • and
further if any person as aforesaid after the said 12th
day of July do openly be conversant (the expressions are
too coarse for quotation in the present day, and appear
intended to be taken from a Statute against bestiality)
with any woman to whom he is or hath been married or
contracted, every such act shall be deemed felony as well
against the man as the woman.
2 and 3 Ed. 6, c. 21, is "An Act to take away all po-
sitive Laws made against Alarriage of Priests. Makes
void all Manner of Forfeitures &c. as well concerning
Marriages heretofore made by any of the Ecclesiastical
or Spiritual Persons aforesaid, as also such which here-
after shall be duly and lawfully had and made."
5 and 6 Ed. 6, c. 12, is "An Act touching the De-
claration of a Statute made for the Marriage of Priests,
andfor the Legitimation of the Children."
1 Mary, seas. 2, c. 2 repeals the two Acts of Ed-
ward 6.

Jae. 1, c. 25, 5. 48, repeals the Statute of Mary, and
s. 49 and 50 revive the two Statutes of Ed. 6 by name.
What becomes of the argument that it is monstrous
to talk of legitimizing the offspring of those who
have married in neglect of the statute of 1835, when
here we have the law legitimizing offspring whose
parents, male and female, were declared to have been
felons by the act of giving them life ?
The attempt to eject was defeated by a majority
approaching to two to one, being 111 against 68.
An attempt to cut off the Scottish Liberals from the
benefit of the Bill, was resisted by a narrower ma-
jority, being only 144 against 137. Whenever a
piece of bigotry is to be hatched or preserved, the egg
is laid in Scotland.
At the same time it would be wrong to overlook
the splendid manner in which the first Law Officer in
Scotland, ordinarily of scholastic and somewhat re-
tiring habit, roused himself to a display of the per-
fervidum ingenium of his country, when pushed to
take his stand between law and unreason,—between
the dignity of knowledge, and the
,degradation of
bigotry which will not reason, amalgamating with
the infirmity which cannot.
On Friday, explanations touching the strange and
scarcely yet unravelled departure of the French Am-
bassador. Everything cuts two ways, and so does
this. The French Royalists, always the bitter ene-
mies of England even when foolishly serving them,
think to promote their views by distracting the atten-
tion of the French to war. Such, from the days of
Rome, and as much further as the case was ever
found, has always been the policy of Governments
afraid of popular opposition. But, on the other
hand, they have given to the revolutionary volcano
which is rising through the earth against them, a ne•
cessary sort of appui in England; for it is plain that
though the results of that explosion should be what
England should ever so much deplore, it is impossible
for any expression of this to be otherwise than maimed
by the facts of the last few days. There is
no use in trying to saddle the English Go-
vernment with a love for Red Republics ; the
reactionary party, by putting themselves into a
hostile attitude towards England, have made
England perforce to a certain extent the negative ally
of anything that may present itself as hostile to the
reactionaries. The pacific disposition of the English
people has been proved under former attempts at
alarm. An important element on the other side is that
neither the French army nor the National Guard is
covetous of an attack on general Europe. 1\ ith the
army the trade of war is gone by. A French soldier
quietly fulfils his seven or five years of heroship in
Algiers ; but at the end of the vista he sees, not the
baton of a Marechal d'Esnpirs as his father did, but
the chimney-corner where he left the girl he intends
to marry and be a notable in his commune. The
National Guards are avowedly the soldiers of peace ;
the first thing from which they would guard the
nation, would be another march to Moscow. They
wisely would prefer the view of the Exhibition
of 1851, to anything they would take by encamping
at Boulogne. The circumstances on the whole are
complicated ; but the result will probably be, that the
French and English nations will be found to have
been laughing at their rulers, and carrying on to the
best of their ability their own several views.
On the same day, a debate on bringing in a Bill to
abolish the office of Lord-Lieutenant in Ireland. In
the history of the Spaniards who followed Columbus,
it is recorded that they sent to an American chieftain
an embassy with hand-cuffs under the name of orna-
ments, and it was not till he was in the Spanish camp
that he found out he was a prisoner. The Irish who
stand out for a Lord-Lieutenant, appear to be under
the same kind of hallucination.
The House on rising adjourned till the 23d.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
N OLD REFORMER.
London, 20th May, 1850.