The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

N. GUIZOT.

The Journal des Dams of Saturday devotes the
greater portion of its first page to the prefaces of M.
Guizot to his historical works entitlad "Washington"
and " Monk." In both of these prefaces M. Guizot
alludes pointedly to the actual position of affairs in
France.

WASHINGTON.
(PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.)
" It was under the Monarchy, almost in the midst of
the councils of King Louis Philippe, that I rendered
homege to Washington', to the foundation of a great
Republic by a great man. In republishing it to-day, a
feeliog of profound sadness comes or-..r me.
" The more I behold, the more do I remain convinced
that the Republic, a noble form of government-, is the
most difficult and most dangerous of governments.
" It is a form of government which demands from
ProvidePce the most rare cud favourable circumstances,
and from society itself the greatest ha.riauny, wisdom,
and virtue.

" And even then it expoees society to many risks, and.
chances numerous.

" The United States were a new society, whicb had not
suffered stormy' and divers transformations, which did not
bear the yoke of a long past, which had nothing to de•
stroy when it had a government to create.
" That young society was not surrounded by rivals,
scarcely by Lt. ighbours. Immensity cf free space yr:is
spread beo!e it, open to the wants and to the passions
of wan.

" For a lung time in its internal affairs it had pos-
sessed and practised the Republican form of government.
It only knew Monarchy by name, beyond the ocean, as a
respected denomination, rather than a necessary and ex-
tant pose;.

" When it commenced a struggle against that power,
it was to resist iniquitous pr-tensions, to defend its
rights, legal rights of old standing.
"The citizens of that society, rich and poor, enlight-
ened or ignorant, were nearly unanimous in favour of a
Republican form of government.
" They were Christians in heart as well as in name.
At the moment they broke with their king, they lived in
humility before God, the King of kings.
"It was tbus that the Republic of the United States
was founded.

" And in despite of so many advantages, if it had been
placed in our hemisphere instead of its own, compressed
between the great states of Europe, instead of expanding
itself freely like its risers in its forests and in its
plains, the doubt is warranted whether it could have
been founded, and could live peaceful and glorious as it
has lived.

" To-day France is undergoing the unexpected experi-
ment, with a Constitution which would cause disorder in
the best regulated society, of that form of government
which America selected from her free choice, according
to her natural inclinations, adapted to the unexampled
situation accorded to her from onh,gh.

" Will the Republic of 1848 attain the destinies of the
Republic of Washington? This is the question which is
now being discussed. _ _ _

" The Republic has been given a fair trial. Notwith-
standing its origin, men of every shade of opinion en-
trenched themselves behind it as behind a rampart for
their common defence, and for the defence of society in
general against its mortal enemies. The Republic exists
in the nsme and in the interests of that order which it
has destroyed. It had no right to expect such good
luck. Will it turn it to account? WM it know how,
with perseverance, to practise a firm policy of conserva-
tion and reconstruction? France invokes it! It suffices
not for the foundation of a Government that it daily
saves society from destruction; it must deliver society
from the daily fear of perishing, and open to it the pro-
spect of a long and peaceful exiAeuce.
" I speak neither of liberty nor glory. I hope, how-
ever, that France will not learn to dispense with either.
" GUISOT.
" Au Val Richer, Oct., 1850."

MONK.
" THE FALL OF VIE REPUBLIC.

" This was not originally written fur publication. It
vms iii: historical study, the sole object of which was to
ascertain for my own information the precise causes
which led to the restoration of the Monarchy in England
in 1660, and the character of the man who accomplished
that great event. In 1837 some friends induced me to
permit its insertion in the Revue Francais. It has never
be-n published separately or completely.
"In 1837 it was simply of historical interest; to-day it
has an additional interest.

" What a strange position is that of France! She is
sick of r,volutions; stability is all she desires; and yet
four or five questions, each of which implies a revolution,
live in the winds, and are upon the lips of all.
" Can the Republic be founded?
"Can the Monarchy be re-established?
" Whet Monarchy? The Empire or the House of
Bourbon?
What branch of the House of Bourbon? The elder
or the junior, or both together, by mutual agreement?
"If what France desires is stability-, why d,es she
moot all these questions? Let her suppress them, and
be satisfied with what is. If she has no faith in the
stability of the existing state of things, why does she
not wake a choice between the questions that are
mooted?

"Is it perchance that these questions admit neither of
suppression nor solution?
"Of all conditions this would be the worst, for we
should then be condemned to immovability with anxiety,
without faith either in the present or in the future.
" I cannot believe, I really do not believe, that such is
the state of my country.
" There is little resemblance between France of 1850
and England of 1660, and I have no intention of holding
up one as an example to the other, though I have been
at times accused of a wish to do so. Franco has her
own destinies and good genius; let her adhere to them
with confidence.

" But there is something which rises above all the
diversities of destiny and guardianship something
which is always and everywhere equally necessary: it is
a political spirit—that is to say, common sense, which in
politics as elsewhere, for nations as for individuals,
alone ensures success, final and durable success.
" A twofold common sense contributed to the restora-
tion of the Monarchy in England i❑ 1660; the common
sense of a man, and the common sense of the country,
or, to speak more precisely, of the monarchists of the
country.

" In two hundred years ago, it was also said
that Monarchy had vanished for ever, and that the Re-
public alone was possible. Monk recognised the falsity
of the assertion. He had faith in the Monarchy whilst
the Republic was in power, when every one around him,
honestly or hypocritically,
spoke of nothing but the Re-
public. And when, on the death of Cromwell and the fall
of his son Richard, the question of preference between
the two forms of government was put, Monk decided for
the Monarchy.
" The merit of that decree had been contested to him;
and Monk, in advancing towards the object he had in
view, had resort to so much double-dealing that preju-
diced or superficial observers may have doubted of a firm
ses
and resolute plan. But a careful study of events and do-
cuments pounetvheersubject. M(lnek n s
ta n reso-
lutiont was taken from the very first; and whatever he
may have dip
donel al
orl doubtaid
he
from his purpose. His mind was made up and his plans
fixed when all around him doubted and hesitated. It was
his first act of political common sense.
" Monk, though decided, was patient. To insure suc-
cess he waited. A warrior and wielding an army, he
firmly and resolutely determined not to renew the dis-
astrous scenes of civil war. He
saw that to restore the
Monarchy on a firm basis it should be done peacefully.
neturally, as a national necessity, the last harbour of
refuge of the country. In the teeth of ill-concealed im-
patience and distrust, he was calm, collected, awaiting
the moment fur the era to take plsce, as it were, of its
own accord. And when the act was accomplished,
Monk desired that victor sine sanguine should be in-
scribed upon the rolls that chronicled his fortune cud
his glory.
" The Monarchists also showed their common sense.
Their position was more simple than it is at the present
moment with us. They did net hesitate between two or
three monaichies. They only wished for one, and that
one the same. But their ranks were not the less divided.
S >me had made the Revolution, others had combated it.
The y had fought fiercely against each other, either for
or against the King whose son they wished to restore.
Different passions, interests, and ideas divided them.
They adjourned their dissensions. 'Tetil the day of
success they reduced their ideas, their passions, and their
interests to the one idea that pervaded them all. They
subjected what they would have preferred to that which
they wished fur in common. This is .the key to the
community of action of the factious.
"The English Royalists went a step further. In the
pursuit of their object they placed their confidence in a
man whom they mistrusted, whom they had a right
to mistrust. Monk had served the King, the Revolution,
the Republic, Cromwell, the Parliament. His actions
impenetrable
were enveloped in • treble mystery. His acts often
belied his words. He told the most barefaced false-
hoods with a confidence that startled his most faithful
followers. The Monarchists did not know what to make
of him, and wavered between hope and fear. Neither
their doubts nor their fears, nor the impenetrable con-
duct of Monk, made the Royalists deviate from their
fine of conduct, Monk was the man they wanted, and
whom their very position imposed upon them. Alto-
gether, they had more reason to hope in him than to
mistrust him. It was another necessity imposed upon
them. They were aware of it, and accepted it. They
did not give themselves up to him hands and feet
bound ; but they cautiously seconded his views, enticing
him without compromising him. They listened to his
counsel, vigilant but quiet behind him, as the leader of
their choice; for a leader is necessary to carry out such
plans; and the only leader is ho who is allowed to have
his own way and is supported in it.
" The success responded to the prudent conduct of the
Monarchists and of their leader.
" Nations, parties, or individuals, men deceive them-
selves in two different but equally fatal respects—the
great circumstances of their destinies. At times unde-
cided and discouraged, they give way to despondency,
remain passive and powerless spectators, and abandon
themselves fully to what, in their faith or their fully, they
call Providence, fatality, or chance. At other times,
confident and hot-headed, they follow the bent of their
imaginations and of their desires, believing that nothing
can resist them or prevent them from succeeding as they
hope and expect. Both errors are neither tolerated nor
left unpunished by God. He wishes man to have a hand
in the management of his own affairs, to share the labour
and the risk. Nor will he allow men to flatter themselves
that they cau bend events to suit their whims or their
interests. Those who do nothing to help themselves,, but
trust to Providence to deliver them from their troubles,
are left unaided. Those whose. presumption bids them
attempt the 'Accomplishment ( f all they desire,; meet
with obstacles and checks which make them aware that
there are other interests at work to be respected and
considered. • A sound policy consists in recognising

these natural necessiets at the oilset, which, if neglected,
become Divice chastisements, aEtt in adopting a lice of
conduct suitable to th,2m.

" I do not wish to say a word respecting the revclu-
tion of February. It is not for me to speak of it ta-
day. But I cannot fancy, no Frenchman can resign
himself to belie.vt! that this is the denouement of the glo-
rious history of Franco. France has a reckless desire
of launching forth, no matter at what price or what risk,
into immense or unheard-of experiments. One might
fancy that it regai-ded itself es the grand laboratory of
the civilization of the world. But it it is eager in he-
zarding itself, it is equally prompt in thinking better of
it, and retracing its steps when it perceives that it has
struck into a wrong path and is stutribliag It has stopped
already at the shade of a great name. But a salutary
bait is nut safety. It is not enough for France not to
roll down the chasm—the chasm must be closed and
France raise herself up. Washington or Monk, one of
the two is necessary to raise her op.
,‘ Which of the two will Providence grant us ?
" I should like to throw upon the event, which is the
object of this atudy, every ray of light likely to en-
lighten it, and to eniightan us by that light. I pubDsh,
as an appendix to may narrative, seventy-one dispatchea,
or fragments of dispatches, addressed, 1659 and 1660,
to Cardinal Mazarin and to M. de Brienne, by M. de
Bordeaux, then Ambassador of France at London.
'.!'nose documents are taken from the archives of the
Foreign-office. It is curious to observe what informa-
tion the representative of Louis XIV. to Cromwell cal.
'acted day by day, and what influence he sought to ex-
ercise on the conduct of Monk towards the restoration
of the Stuarts.

"I also publish a letter addressed by Richard Crom-
well to Monk fifteen days before the restoration of
Charles That," he says "when Parliament meets
you will use your influence in my favour, that I may not
be under the weight of debt 9, which neither God nor my
c-mmeience, lam sure, can regard as mine. . . . .
For I have that confidence in you, that if I may deem
myself unworthy of great things, you will not esteem
me worthy of utter ruin.'
" What a singular mixture of modesty, almost hum-
ble, and of a recollection of past greatness
GIIIZOT.
"Au Val Richer, October, 1850."

MR. HUDSON AND THE WEEKLY
CHRONICLE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—The recent proceedings in bankruptcy against
Mr. John Henry Doyle having been carried to a superior
court, without any opportunity being afforded me,
although summoned by him as a witness, of refuting
upon oath the charges which, without reference to any
question from his solicitor or the Court, he volunteered,
under evident feelings of irritation and resentment, as he
was about to leave the witness-box. I trust you w ill
allow me to find in the columns of the Times that means
of vindicating myself which &court of justice has denied.
I pass over that portion of the evidence which merely
affects me personally, as I believe that among my ac-
quaintances of the London press (with which I have
been honourably connected for 15 years), as well as among
my private friends, my character stands too high to suffer
in their estimation by any imputation which that evi-
dence may convey.
But as you, Sir, led by another portion of Mr. Doyle's
testimony, have felt it to be your duty to censure the
venality which that testimony, it true. would go far to
establish, and as the " purity of the British press" has
been thus assailed through me, a higher feeling even
than anxiety fur my personal honour compels me to ad-
dress you.
With reference, then, to the charge of corruption on
which your observations have be. n founded, I beg to
state most solemnly and unequivocally, that, directly cr
indirectly, I have never sought for, accepted, offered,
nor been offered, any remuneration, reward, or favour of
any kind whatsoever for the insertion of any article, pst
or prospectively, in the columns of the Weely Chronicle,
having reference to Mr. George Hudson, M.P. To Mr.
Hudson I have never spoken in my life; with Mr. Hud-
son I have never, either directly or indirectly, in any
shape or mariner, communicated; and iu no way, medi-
ately or immediately, has Mr. Hudson, or any person
representing or professing to represent him, at any time,
to my knowledge, since I became proprietor of the
Weehly Chronicle, trade any suggestion, or held out any
promise, to iotiueuce the insertion of any article in that
paper.
It may be, when the truth is known. that the world
will one day think that the origin of the indignation ma-
nifested against Mr. Hudson, is net anything he. or any
one on his behalf has done, or attempted to do—but
rather what he has not done, and what a gentleman,
aupposed to have influence with him, indignantly refused
to do ou bis behalf. That gentleman during the last two
mouths has, to my knowledge, been frequently menaced
with teis charge of corruption—At length publicly made,
but sines privately withdrawn. I may observe, too, that
that gentleman wes summoned as a witness in the dis-
puted adjudication of Mr. Doyle's batikruptey, for no
motive that I can imagine, but one, and that I dare not,
express. The moment his name was associated with the
charge of corruption, he rose from his seat among the bar,
and said emphatically, " It is false, and the witness knows
it; and was only invented from saying more by the in-
terposition of Mr. Commissioner Foublanque. .

I will coneludo by observing that I have taken legal
steps to dissolve the partnership between me and a gen-

tleman who, having no reason to impute to me an at-
tempt to corrupt the Weekly Chronicle, had every reason
to know and believe the contrary.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
ROBERT W. RUSSELL.
19, Northumberland-street, Strand, Dec. 2.

TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY.,
BART., M.P.
Sir,—lt is now about twelve years ago since I visited,
in the neighbourhood of St. Leonard's, a Roman Ca-
tholic institution of the Sisters of Mercy, and I learnt
then, and subsequently, that there were several institu-
tions of the same kind in this country and in Ireland.
From my knowledge of history, and from my acquaint-
ance with lunatic asylums, it struck me, at the time, that
these institutions were liable to great abuse, and might
be made instruments of oppression, and that they ought
to be under some supervision of the civil power. Many
persons have been confined in lunatic asylums for their
religious:opinions, of which I have lately given you evi-
dence in the copies of the certificates in two cases, and
there is much temptation for this iu families that pretend
to any distinction, and think that their credit would bo
damaged by any of their members professing highly
zealous or dissenting principles, or that their interests
would be injured by a relation's profuse charity, as in the
lower ranks of life, I have known a young man to be
confined for his theatrical propensities. The stage and
the pulpit have, I have no doubt, contributed their quota
of victims to the system of licensed Thuggism which has
prevailed till lately with so little check in our own lunatic
asylums; and it is certainly within the sphere of pro-
bability that young ladies may be confined by zealous
Roman Catholic families for their heritical opinions, or
freedom of mind, in these institutions, quite contrary to
their own sense of duty and to their own inclinations.
At any rate, a provident Government should guard
against such abuses. I have not before addressed Go-
vtrnment upon the subject, because I felt the delicacy
of meddling in the religious institutions of a sect which,
having been so long kept under severe control and sub-
jection, might fancy every interference with their regu
lotions, however reasonable and necessary, an additional
affront and persecution, and I did not think that Govern-
ment would attend to me, particularly as i❑ this country
it exercises so little foresight, and generally waits for
the manifestation of gross abuses to correct them, in-
stead of endeavouring to prevent them. Now, however,
that the authorities of the Church of Rome have not

scrupled to outrage our feelings by their late affectation
of denying the supremacy of the Clint ch in this country,
I do not see that they should be treated with a consi&-
ration which is rendered criminal where sound principles
of government, experience, and the knowledge of human
nature impose a duty upon the civil power for the pre-
vention of abuse, and the protection of the subject. I beg,
therefore, to suggest that a short Act of Parliament
should tle passed compelling the superiors of these estab-
lishments in her Majt,sty's dominions to have plans of

their buildings, and to keep and furnish correct lista of
their inmates, and that they should be placed under the
supervision of the magistracy in their several districts,
or of a mixed commission of Protestant and Romanist
gentlemen or clergymen, who should visit them regu-
larly, and have power to enter, if ever they heard upon
good authority that any person was detained there con-
trary to his will, or treated with improper rigour in them.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient humble servant.
JOHN PERCEV AL.
Kensington, Nov. 20. 1850.

A WORD AS TO THE TIME OF SENDING
IN ARTICLES FOR EXHIBITION.

At present it is announced that all goods must be sent
in by the Ist of March, The Exhibition opens on the
Ist of May, so in cases or parcels, packed or unpacked,
the goods are to be on the ground just two months be-
fore they are wanted for exhibition.
Now, we undertake to say (that with the exception as
to such machinery as may require fitting) any committee
of London warehousemen or shopmen will inform the
Commissioners, that ten days or a fortnight will afford
ample time to arrange every article for exhibition. Ex-
hibitors will each arrange their own contributions, and
vast as will be the extent of the Palace of Industry, and
wonderful the products exhibited, it will scarce need
more time for arrangement under the many hands of
exhibitors, than any morning's setting out of the Lon-
don shops.
There would, at all events, be ample time if the goods
were to be sent in by the middle of April. The addi-
tional six weeks would be of great importance to manu-
facturers for the completion of their several works and
fabrics; and it is quite impossible that polished steel
goods, cutlery, plated ware,
.and articles of high and de-
licate colour should remain any way upon the ground,
where there is no preparation for the dry and warm
stowage of packages, without tarnish, rust, and injury
from failing. It is quite essential, therefore, in justice
to exhibitors, that this strange regulation as to time
should be immediately changed.—From the Expositor of
November 30.

The Benchers of the Middle Temple request that
gentlemen desirous of becoming, candidates for the office of
Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law. now vacant by
the resignation of George Bowyer, Esq., D.C.L., will address
the Treasurer of the Middle Temple by letter, to be lett at
the office'ef the gitb;•Tieasurer, MiddliTemple, on or,before
,the,l 4th Deceit her instant. •
1111t.7',;Humni, M P
T AMPT ON , DEC. 2.--'
,Air.,,Joaeph Hutne4 M.P., having arrived' in the town to-day,
fdr ,the, purpose of seeingbis son off in the Royal Nail Corn-
pany,.!s, ship. Thames, has been invited to a public dinner. to
take'place this'evening at the ArChety Rooms, at which the
iitayer war preside:* 'ln order to afford the working man an
-opportunity ofbeing• present, the price of the tickets is 2s. 6d.
each, and upwards a 300 hay° been disposed of.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM THE
PENTONVILLE (MODEL) PRISON.

A convict named George Racket, who bas attained
considerable notoriety amorg,t the police in the 1119-
trupolis, and who, it will be recollected, succeeded in

getting out of a cell at the Marlborough-street Police-
court a short time since, contrived on Sunday even-
ing to escape from the Model Prison at Pentonville,
under circumstances that at present appear most
mysterious. Few felons have created more interest
of late years at the London Police. courts than llacket,
and probably the subjoined particulars of his career
may not be deemed uninteresting. The convict is
the son of a etreetkeeper inDowgate ward. HP com-
menced his career of crime by smuggling, and some
dozen convictions are recorded against him at the
Mansion-house and Thames Police. He then attached
himself to a gang of marauders, and the amount of
depredations they committed was enormous. Pos-
sessing themselves of light chaise carts and swift
horses they drove about the principal streets of the
metropolis, and their respectable appearance and the
vehicle disarmed all suspicion. Racket was first dis-
covered to be connected with this sang in the latter
part of 1847, when he was captured in the act of
stealing a chest of tea from a shop in Hart-street,
Bloomsbury-square. He was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. At the ter-
mination of his sentence he again joined the gang.
He was known to have been concerned in several
burglaries which subsequently took place, more par-
ticularly that which was committed on the morning
of the 27th of last March, on the premises of Messrs.
Hardy, No. 125, New Bond-street, on which occa-
sion property to the amount of 3001. was stolen.
Hacket was seen by a labourer who was engaged in
some repairs of a house on the opposite side of the
igay to enter the premises with two other persons,
leaving a third in charge of a light cart. They soon
returned with the plunder, and placing it in the ve-
hicle, drove off. A constable came up at the time,
and his attention being called to the circumstance, he
gave chase, but they eluded the vigilance of the
officer. Some few weeks afterwards George Trew,
No. 21 of the City force, met Hacket driving down
Bishopsgate-street in a cart, with two other men.
He stopped it and attempted to capture Hacket, who
drew a life-preserver, and by a murderous attack on
the officer compelled him to release his hold, and he
then escaped. In the course of a few nights he was
again seen in the City by another officer, named
Joh❑ Storey, No. 414 of the City Police. He was
accompanied by several of his gang, and had two
light carts waiting at the corner of Queen-street,
Upper Thames-street, and no doubt intended some
robbery in the neighbourhood. The officer, after a
severe struggle, managed to effect his capture, and
the following day the Lord Mayor, hearing of the
charge of burglary against him, directed his removal
to Marlborough-street Police-court, where he under-
went an examination, and was remanded till the fol-
lowing week. Upon being again brought up he was
locked up in one of the cells attached to the office,
but when the time arrived for his being taken before
the magistrate it was discovered that he had escaped
from the cell along with another man. The authori-
ties instituted an inquiry, and it turned out that a
turnkey had received a large sum of money to effect
his liberation, and he was discharged. Nothing was
heard of Thicket, until the 29th of May, when the
officer Storey, who was passing over London-bridge,
sale him lying at the bottom of a cart, which was
also proceeding over the bridge. The officer
immediately stopped the vehicle, and called upon
Hacket to surrender, who jumped out of the cart
' end endeavoured to get away. The officer overtook
him in Thames-street, and a desperate struggle en-
sued. Hacket drew a formidable life-preserver, and
by beating the constable over the bead nearly mur-
dered him. The bystanders fortunately secured the
fellow, and on being examined at the Mansion-house,
he was committed to Newgate for trial for attempting
to murder Storey. He was tried before Baron
Alderson, found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years'
trznsportation, his Lordship allowing the officer a re-
ward for the courage and zeal he had displayed in
arresting the convict. Whilst in Newgate he made
preparations to effect an escape, but his plan being
discovered, he was placed in a cell of greater security.
From Newgate he was conveyed to the Model
Prison at Pentonville, and after two attempts has
succeeded in getting out of the gaol under circum-
stances that have led the authorities to suspect that
some of the turnkeys have been tampered with.
It appears that since his confinement in this gaol
he was placed in one of the usual cells or dormi-
tories under the immediate surveillance of the prison
officers. We cannot state what opportunities he had
of ascertaining the construction of the cells, but it is
certain that shortly after his incarceration he devised
a scheme to release himself. By some unexplained
means he managed to obtain possession of part of the
blade of a knife, and with other appliances he, some
week or so since, contrived to cut through three mas-
sive iron bars which secured the window of his cell,
and it is persumed that he was on the eve of pre-
paring to escape when his scheme was detected. He
was at once removed to another part of the gaol,
where he proceeded to devise other means of accom-
plishing his object.
On Sunday evening Hacket attended service in the
chapel, commencing at half-past six o'clock and con-
cluding at eight. Service being finished, the usual
mustering of the convicts took place, when it was
found that Hacket was missing. Search was made,
and on examining the walls of the prison it was
ascertained that he had escaped and had got clear.
At first it was a matter of great surprise how he
could have got out of the chapel unobserved, having
been distinctly seen in his seat, and it was only by
finding the sheets of his bed, a rope, and his clothing
on the parapet-wall that his mode of escape was
detected. It appears that by some means he
managed to wrest off the spring of the door of
his cell, which he formed into a " jemmy," and con-
templating some hazardous task, he concealed about
him a weight and the sheets and rope of his bed,
which he must have wrapped round his body under
his clothes. As soon as he was conducted to his seat
he must have slipped down off his seat on to the floor-
ing, and by the " jemmy" and weight forced out the
boarding. Having got under the gallery be met a
serious obstacle in the shape of a zinc ventilator, but
this soon gave way, thus enabling him to descend to
a small closet beneath. A window with trifling pro-
tection afforded him access to the parapet wall some
few feet below. Gaining it, be proceeded along it to
one of the main walls, fifty or sixty feet long, com-
municating to the Governor's house, on the north
side of the prison. Reaching the end be by some
means must have got on to the roof of the house, a
height of more than six feet from the wall. Having
obtained this point all obstacles were apparently at an
end. He divested himself of the prison clothing,
save his trousers and blue shirt, and with the
" jemmy," rope, sheets, &c., left them on the roof,
and by sliding down one of the gable-end walls got
clear of the gaol.
The moment his escape was discovered, the Go-
vernor dispatched officers to the different police sta-
tions with a full description of his person. The most
vigilant search was made for him throughout yester-
day, bat up to a bite hour last night not the least
tidings had been gleaned of his whereabout.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S —YESTERDAY.
The following brief enumeration includes the whole of
the business transacted yesterday:
WORCESTER STEEPLECHASE.
4 to 1 agar British Yeoman
6 to 1 agst Mullingar
CHESTER CUP.
750 to 25 agst Rhesus, 1,000 to 20 each agst Clarissa,
Cossack, Montague, and Wallflower, and 1,000 to 15 ags- t
Won't-you-come-out• to. night.
DERBY.
500 to 100 agst Mr. 11. Hill's Grecian—taken
800 to 100 agst Mr. Halford's Prime Minister
600 to 50 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph colt
—taken
2,000 to 45 agst Mr. Meiklam's Constellation—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Hill's Ipsua—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Baron Rothschild's Tearaway colt—t
1,000 to 20 apt Mr. St. G eorge's Brother to Chanticleer
—taken
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING (CON.
CLUDED).—SATURDAY.
The All•aged Stakes.
Deciding Course—l>lrd Stradbroke's Merchant bt
Mr. Holmes's Mocking Bird, and won the stakes.

THE CASE OF Ma. BARBER.—OH Tuesday a
number of gentlemen belonging to the legal profession in
this town held a meeting at the Clarendon-rooms, to receive
from Mr. Barber a statement of his case. The circum-
stances cf Mr. Barber's case have already been published
in the newspapers. After many years' practice as a soli-
citor, Mr. Barber was convicted of forgery, and transported ;
he afterwards received a full pardon from the Crown, cir-
cumstances having subsequently transpired to establish his
innocence. The chair was occupied by Sir George
Stephen, and among those present Were Mr. J. B.
Aspinall, barrister, Mr. J. Yates, jun., Mr. Pemberton,
Mr. Bretherton, Mr. Owen, Mr. Grocott, &c., &c. Mr.
Barber entered into a long explanation of his case, which.
was considered perfectly satisfactory to the meeting.
After some remarks from Mr. Aspinall, Mr. Evans, Mr.
Grocott, Mr. Bretherton, Mr, Yates, and the chairman,
resolutions were adopted expressing an opinion that Mr.
Barber was entirely innocent of the offence which had
been charged against him.—" That while it was not within
the province of this meeting to consider the compensation
to which lie is entitled for the injury he has sustained, it is
the unquestionable duty. of his professional brethren to
protest against the doctrine that solicitors are to be sus-
pected of complicity with the offences of their clients,
without evidence of guilty knowledge, and only because
they may happen to be professionally employed. And
that the chairman be requested to communicate to Mr.
Barber the earnest hope of this meeting that he may expe-
rience no further difficulty in obtaining his ,certificte,
for his unmerited sufferings as may and
pal redress
just." hheproceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to
the chairtnan.—Licerpool Mercury. ' be deemed
,

PROLIFIC PORRER:-.,& cone- spondent in Mussel-
burgh itilorms us that he has in his possession a sow which
produced the other day at one litter twenty-two young ones.
The same animal has had three litters since January last, the
total produce of
which la forty-eight Piga.--.Edinbwvh [Yam

CALIFORNIA, BY AN ENGLISH

EMIGRANT.

Ring Gold, El Dorado County, California,
Sept. 20. . _

My ever dear Mother,-1 have postponed writing
to you until my return to San Francisco, as I told
you in my last letter to you, which I wrote from
Greenwood's Vailey, dated Llay the 30th, and en-
closed in one to Mr. L. ; since then I wrote to Mr.
D. and to aunt P. It would be folly were Ito say I
had not time to write, for I live a very easy life. I
cannot work hard, and the climate does not agree
with me. I live in the loghouse of an American gentle-
men named Cresine, of Kentucky. He is good man,
and I intend to stay here until be leaves, and then
go with him to the United States. I came to this
country to make a fortune, and would do so, but the
climate is intolerable. Only fancy, not a single cloud
has been in the clear blue firmament since April, no
dew has fallen, the sun shines in all its brightness.
Were you to feel how pleasant it is at sunrise you
might say, what beautifulweather ! but after the sun is
two hours' high you would feel sick and
giddy to see everything parched, and feel the
intense heat scorching your very blood up.
Now, working in the mines under such beat is the
cause of great numbers of deaths. As soon
as the rainy season begins, people will die off in hun-
dreds and thousands from other causes, such as ex-
posure of all sorts, which brings on colds, fevers, ague,
scurvy, diarrhoea, dysentery, &c. Although at pre-
sent the days are so hot, yet the nights are bitter
cold ; such sudden changes bring on in me an occa-
sional attack of rheumatism. I am now again laid
up; my left arm is swollen and in a sling, and
my right hand is the only limb at liberty. When
I am ill and kept awake all night with intense suf-
fering, then I think of home.' Last night I
made up my mind to write to you. I take great
care of myself, expose myself as little as possible
to the sun's rays; wear flannel constantly next my
skin. I live well, and work very little, and yet do
not have my health at all. If I am thus subject to
rheumatism in summer, what must I be in winter ? I
have duly considered all this, and made up my mind
to go to the United States before the rainy season
commences, unless I can get en easy berth in —'s
office. As to money matters, thanks to you
in making me learn to paint, during my healthy
days I made as much and have got as much
as will take me to the States by the Isthmus
of Panama, and keep me in the States for twelve
months afterwards. Now, considering all circum-
stances—that I came here alone, alone fought my way
and have got ahead, I have done pretty well. I have
made by painting signs, &c., about 1;500 dollars since
my arrival in the country, that is about 300/. Eng-
lish; and had it not been for my heavy expenses
through sickness, travelling, &c., I should have bad
more than I have ; but at any rate, I do not intend
to start to the States with less than 1001. In my
pocket. I never work a whole day without mak-
ing 51. or 61., and sometimes more—that is, while
I am well; but since last July, when the overland
emigration from the States poured in its starving
thousands, all kinds of wages have come down,
men working for their board. lam afraid that
as far as regards 'wages, this country is ruined.
Miners now do not make as much as formerly. Gold
there is, and plenty of it, but few make great raises,
and the accounts of these few spreading to all parts of
the world cause the gold fever, and 99 out of every
100 who come to this country curse the day they ever
t r tea . If any of our friends intend coming, tell
them to stay at home, or else, if they want to go
abroad, to go to the United States. No one likes this
country well enough to settle in it ; that ought to be
sufficient proof that it is not fit for a white man
to live in. Since this new emigration commenced,
stealing, robbing, and pillaging have begun. Most
likely I shall start for the United States about
Christmas, and will make alongside of Bill at once.
I do not intend to turn farmer, or work hard, for
I can make more money in any country at this
work without hard work. I think I shall like the
United States better than England. I have met with
better men and more staunch friends amongst the
Western and Southern Americans (more particularly
amongst Kentuckians) than ever I did amongst my
own countrymen. However, should I not like
America, I shall come and see you for a few months,
and then put out for some other part of the globe.
Although I have travelled 20,000 miles round the
Horn, yet I still have a great desire to see other
fereign countries. There are great riots through
California, which the papers will exaggerate; but
don't be alarmed for me, I always go armed. The
Indians about here are very numerous and wicked.
A man was brought past our house yesterday
shot in two places ; so a party have started of
in pursuit, swearing to kill every Indian they
come across; for every white man killed thirty In-
dians get killed !—that's paying back with interest.
A young English friend of mine here was attacked by
an Indian the other day ; one arrow struck his horse,
another missed, so he shot the Indian dead with a
pistol. _ _ _

Some days have elapsed since I wrote the above.
I have been very ill of rheumatism. An English lady
is near here ; her husband and her came from the Salt
Lake City this year, and were camped in the valley op-
posite our house, when, hearing there were some Eng-
lish in the camp, I got acquainted with them. She
called on me during my late illness, and was very kind.
Since my recovery a person, to whom I have lent
upwards of 501., has sold out, and cut, leaving me. I
am very much depressed in spirits ; this will ma-
terially affect my leaving this country. I have
about 451. left, so I am going straight down to San
Francisco to see what I can do there. Most likely
I shall get away, if not I shall purchase timber, and
build myself a cabin to winter in, and will open a
sort of grocery store on a smale scale. Don't fear
for me ; lam all right. The little capital I have I
will put to a right use, and manage to get a living
without exposing myself to the sun in summer, and
the rain in winter. I wrote to Bill not to come out
to this country, and I hope he may stay where be
is ; everybody leaves here as soon as they can. If
people knew the suffering of Californians they would
not be so keen in coming out. They come here,
and work for one-tenth less than the old Cali-
fornians and are themselves causing their own suffer-
ings. I don't pity them. When first they began to
come, starving and begging, to our aoor, I never
refused; always shared what I had. By this way I
lost about 200 dolls. Now I have stopped all that ;
it won't do. I long once more to be at home. I
chink you may reckon on my being in St.
Albans on Christmas-day twelvemonth, 1851, no
!natter how the world goes. I have just heard of
Sir Robert Peel's untimely death. I expect when I
get to San Francisco to receive some letters from
nonce, and newspapers. I have not seen a single
English paper since I left England. I will post this
at Sacramento city, 50 miles from here.
San Francisco, Sept. 26.
Since I wrote the above a war has taken place
between two tribes of Indians. About five hundred
whites were looking on ; I was one. Several
were killed ; the tribe living about here won the
battle, took a great may prisoners, and killed them
before our eyes. I was among some the other day.
One laid hold of my horse's bridle ; I put spurs to
him, but the fellow would not flinch, so I shot him.
The ball struck his arm, and he ran yelling away, and
I. galloped off to get clear of the rest. I have seen
the fellow since with his arm slung 11D. They are the
(Bost treacherous beings in the world, and impudent
and lazy to boot.
After four days' bard travelling from the mines, I
arrived here. I had to sleep out in the rain all night
with only my buffalo robe on me. To-morrow lam
going upon a shooting exeursion down the Bay of
Pueblo de San Jose, and shall be away about five
days.
I often dream that lamin my little room. Oh,
how happy to dream thus ! but how vexing when
one awakes, instead of finding the curtains above
me, to see the stars twinkling, and hear the wolves
howling, &c. !
If T. M. or David bad come out with me, we
should have made our fortune by this time ; but the
case is now altered; California is now overcrowded;
it is not the place it was when I landed. Should
either Tom or David intend coming out, tell them, if
they value their lives, to stay at home.
A large portion of this city was burnt down again
last week. It has been four times burnt since I was
here before. This place is now, without exception,
the largest port in the world.

Wits love to father and Elijah, I remain, my dear
mother, your ever affectionate son,

ANOTHER BURGLARY IN SURREY.—Another daring
burglary, accompanied with violence, took place on Satur-
day evening last, at the house of a Mr. Marshall, residing on
Frenchaw Common, near Farnham. The particulars, as far
as we have been able to ascertain, are as follow :—About
eight o'clock on Saturday evening Mr. Marshall, who lives
with his sister alone, was aroused by a loud knock at. his
front door. On opening the door he found a group of seven
men standing round it, and as soon as he presented himself
one of their number inquired the road to Guildford. Mr.
Marshall was in the act of stepping out to direct them, when
he was soddenly knocked down, as is supposed, by a life-
preserver. The men immediately entered the house, when
they were at once encountered by Miss Marshall, who, with
great presence of mind, rushed up stairs to procure a gun
which her brother always kept loaded, calling out at the
same time, " I'll fire at them." The villains caught her
upon the staircase, and presenting pistols at her, dragged
her to the front door, where they pointed out her brother
lying in an insensible state on the gronnd,and cautioned her
to be quiet. They then ransacked the house of everything
of a valuable character it contained, taking off, amongst
property, a number of old guineas. Before leaving
goon set terms for not having
I not
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more
rye a r
propertyabused
Miss
iiMr. Marshall remained in,. an
insensible state for nearly two hours, and is still suffering
severely front the injuries he sustained. The polite are in
possession of a description of the men, and are actively en.
gaged in endeavouring to trace them.
On Wednesday and Thursday last Skiddaw ap-
ts theMa
house.hall i n
peared iin its winter garb; its summit was covered with
snow.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

DRYDEN v. FRYER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Michael Rook—l never saw Sir Gregory drinking
brandy and water at the Eyre Arms or at the York and
Albany; nor did I ever say I did to any person. From
the time I was discharged, I will not swear I was not
told to keep an eye over Sir Gregory by Lady Turner
or Dr. Warburton. Occasionally, after that time, I did
keep my aye upon him. Whenever I watched him he went
his usual way about town, and returned home, getting
into a cab very often. He had a peculiarity of stuffing his
pockets with papers and lettprs. Ho carried about with
him specimens of rare stones of old buildings, but not
of bricks or common stones of any description. He did
not like cuts or dogs. He had a peculiarity of not being
willing to go to the water-closet; he used a common
utensil in the room. There was a common red earthen-
ware pan kept in the room for that purpose under the
bed. He used it near the fireplace. 'That was continued
until I left, and I found him using it when I returned.
He never walked about the room at nights. He did not
take his clothes into bed with him; but he might do so.
He etas not fond of new clothes. I went back to him in
November. His fits had begun then; ho had a fit soon
after 1 returned. I never saw him in a fit before I first
Itft him. After I went back to him in November,
1841, he had one or two fits in the remainder of that
year; but they became frequent in the next year, and
his mind and body became more feeble. I consider
his mind was very well up to within two or three months
before his death; he was perhaps not quite rational, but
he was capable of doing any act like anybody else.
He then became more thoughtful about his family.
I cannot give you particularly any instance of his con-
versation being irrational at any time. He used to be-
come excited, and he liked a glass of liquor. Ever
since I left off attending Sir Gregory, I have been paid
this salary regularly, though I receive less now than I
did at one time for attending on Sir Gregory. I had
formerly 30s. a week; since I left the house that !Limes
bad it has been a guinea. 4
Re-examined by Mr. M. CHAMBERS—The impression
upon my mind was, after I left off attending Sir Gre-
gory, that I should be called back in the event of the
removal of the restraint on Sir Gregory not answering.
About 1840 and 1841 Sir Gregory became quite a dif-
ferent men from what he had been; he was more tran-
quil and quiet. The pan, of which I have spoken, had
been put into his bedroom at the instance of Mr. Holmes,
and not at Sir Gregory's request.
William Holmes called—l was the proprietor of the
how?, in Alpha-road in which Sir Gregory came to re-
side-in January, 1828. In the ta: ly part of 1829 I was
appoint: d one of his attendants by the Court of Chan-
cery. I attended him with Reek up to April, 1840,
when my attendance was discontinued. Previous to my
leaving, -in 1810, I noticed a change for the better in his
mied. I dad net see him again until October or No-
vember. 1841, whin I met him accidentally walking in
the Alpha-read alonie He addre:ed me, saying, " Ah,
idol:nes! how d'ye do?" cordially putting out his
to' shake hands with me. I conversed with him about
tea titeitites. I said, "I perceive, Sir Gregory, you are
a tree agent." He said, " Yee, Holmes, and I hope I
always shall be. I hope you are comfortable in your
situation. How is the Duke?" (meaning the nubhman
I was with.) In that conversation he talked reasonably
and sensibly. His manner was rational, and his address
was plea.tant and less harried than turreerly. In 1842
he came to to e rue in hit carrinac at the house. I was
stay log with the nobleman near Kilburn. lie it not of
his ca riago and waked with me up and down the road.
That was in the autumn of 1842. I tallied with him
about half an hour. His conduc,.. and conversation were
then decidedly rational. linek wee with him in the
carriage. I acid to Sir Gregory, "I see Rook is with
you again." He replied, " I had a wish for Reek to c,aise,
beck again," because, he said, he was not so well in.
bodily hetilth. When he caw and parted with use on this
occasion he shook hands with me. It did not think
Rook's attendance was niccstaTy with reference to the
state of Sir Gregory's mine.
ems i-examined by Sir F. KELLY—I was Sir Gregory's
keeper from 1828 to 1840. lem not aware I was suc-
ceeded by another keeper. With the exception of three
months, after he came to my house his conversation was
at wept raional. It was net in his conversation
that his disease manifested itsele It was rather
in his peculiar habits, which I thought indi-
cated insanity. When I left my house in le4o,
Rook took my house for the purpose of Sir Gre-
gory residing there until Midsummer, 1841, when my
house came hack into my own hinds. I received about
261. or 271. for damage done by Sir Gregory to my fur-
niture. I 'do not recollect- that that included a charge
for injury done to the bed= in which Sir Gregory slept.
I did not look at the bedding used by Sir Gregory until
el month afterwards and then it had been cleaned, _
Mr. William Archer calle.l—l am a surgeon in Mon-
tagu-street, Portman-square. In the latter end of No-
vember, 1841, I was called in to attend Sir Gregary
1'44:0 Turner. The late Dr. Warburton was attending
him as physician then. Sir Gregory had burnt his
hsaa in . extinguishing the fire in Lady Turner's cap,
which had caught fire whilst she was reading, and I was
cs!lscl in to see him. Her Ladyship's hands were also
burnt. I attended him a month or five weeks. I at-
tended him for nothing else than the burns in
that period. In
_the end of 1841, or beginning
of 1840 1 attended him again for an epileptic fit, and 1
continual to attend him from that time until his death,
principally on account of the fits. I saw him sometimes
twice in a day, and at other times a week would inter-
vene. The late Dr. Warburton cautioned to attend him,
with tae, up to the time of his death. I had frequent
conversations with Sir Gregory when I was first called
in; he suss then quite rational; he had no de-
lesions; he always answered to the point, evidently
psrfeetly understanding what was said. In
my judgment he was capable of understanding any in-
strument in the nature of a will, and of transacting bu-
siness. Atter I attended him awhile there was more
torpor of the mind; he would not answer so readily. I
never heard him talk insensibly.
Cross-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I keep
an open surgery in Montagu-street, Portman-square,
where I dispense medicines and make up prescriptions.
I am a member of the College of Surgeons of
fifteen years standing. During the first half
of 1842 Sir Gregory perhaps had three or
four fits. I know of a Mr. North, a medical gentleman,
being called in. In the latter part of 1842 his fits be-
came more frequent. He had one once a month or
three weeks. -1 conversed with him about his family
and the ordinary topics of the day. He talked especially
about his daughter, expressing great fondness for her,
and 41ing to see her. I have been present when he
dad see her. He received her With kindness. I don't
say that the commission ought never to have been re-
moved; I only say he was rational when I talked with
him.

By Lord CAMPBELL—If I had been asked in the lat-
ter end of 1841 ur the beginning of 1842 to witness a
will by Sir Gregory Turner. I should have done so.
Themes Paxton called—l am bailiff on Sir Gregory
Turner's Bedfordshire etaates. I first became bailiff in
1819. I have col tinued so up till this moment. I was
a witncla in support of the oami in 1823. I hail
had fie quent communications with Sir Gregory up to that
time. An April, 1839, I was residing in the tajoining
parish to Battlesden, en the property of it Gregory
Turner. I remember a Mr. Fryer, in April, 1839,
speaking tip rue ssith regard to the menagetnent of the
property. He eished use to mark out a lot at timber
than, might be taken down on the estates.
The Rev. John Vaux Moore celled—l am the rector
of Aepley-Guys, in Bedlordahire. I inn a first cousin
of the late Sir Gregory Turner. I saw him occasion-
ally in early life. After the cenatuission was taken out
against him, in 1823, I was in the habit of seeing him in
the Alpha road. He paid see a visit at my own houee
is Bedfordshire in July, 1841. He conducted himself
perfectly as other people do with regard to his manner
and conversation. He dined with me. He came betwern
twelve and one. We dined in the middle of the day, •
and he I,fr, the villego about live or six. I walked round
the garden with him as well as dining with him. I had
thus a great deal of conversation with him, in the course
of which he referred to places and persons in the neigh-
bourhood. I was surprised at his memory on these sub-
jects, considering that he had nut been at my house before
for about tweety years. I think he was capable of any
act requiring judgment and the use of right reason.
Cross-examined by Sir F. KELLY—I never transacted
any kind of business with Sir Gregory. On the occa-
sion I refer to, when he visited me, he was accompanied
by her Ladyship and a coachman, and came from Luton.
I never resided in the house with him. During this visit
his habits or peculiarities were never made the subject of
conversation. I endeavoured to obtain the living of
Battlesden on two occasions, and I was unsuccessful in
both. Mr. Fryer is at this moment rector of Battlesden.
Mr. Fryer has been rector of Battlesden for upwards of
a year and a half. I have made a visit to Mr. Fryer at
Battlesden, and Mr. Fryer has returned my visit; but
neither of us happened to be at home, and therefore by
accident we have never met.
Miss Frances Ann Moore called—l am first cousin to
the late Sir Gregory Page Turner, and sister of the
last witness. I was acquainted with Sir Gregory before
the issuing of the commission in 1823. I had known
him from a boy. He was always a person of eccentric
habits. I have seen him almost every year since the
commission in 1823. In 1841, after Lady Turner had
returned to live with him, I went to stay with them in
Montagu-square. I; called on them also in the Alpha-
rear!, but I cannot recollect in what year
that was. Ile was they in the same state as
I had known him all my life. I was about a fortnight
with them in Montague-square. That was about two
years before he came to visit us in Bedfordshire. When
I stayed with them in Montagu-square I had opportunities
of conversing with him. He took his meals with the
family, except breakfast. He appeared as much able of
traneaeting business as he always was; he was odd. He
was rational in talking. I never heard anything irra-
tional in his conversation. I cannot recollect him doing
anything irrational. I rode out with him in his carriage
frequently.
Cross examined by the SOLICITOR. GENERAL—I don't
say he was rational as to his Conversation all the time I
knew him, but he was rational in that respect whenever
I talked to him. I stayed with bins also in Woucester-
pla-P Portman-square. Sir Gregory never is the least
Insulted me. I never remember falling ask ep on a sofa
en caller of the occasions when I stayed in his house; I

ainogur-itiws,4 it, Trying my memory, I cannot recol-
rieraidltiratiddal act of his. I certainly don't remember
•c,;.":4llt—yo43llpeiling to my dress at any time when I was
Orr sofa. Positive again.—(Laughter.)
it...ik,*factlYfull that I was ever in the least annoyed
ge Turner. I thought him better in
4cdtri4Xitatian wheti I was staying with him in Gloucester-
,=';'"-Vdo44,C-ithmember his having fits whet I ival
• 04:*•:4.•*eih him.
4%,,„ a

(THIS EVENING.)

Re-examined by Mr. M. Cialtainzas—l was in the
habit of seeing him every year when I came to town.
Mary Durosi—ln 1832 I went to reside as governese I
in the family of Lady Winston Baron, who is a eister of
the late Sir Gregory Turner. I remained there for five
years. After I left I kept up my intercourse with
Lady Winston Baron. I was in the habit, both
before and after I left her, of visiting Sir Gregory
till his death in the company of Lady Baron.
In 1840 and 1841, when I visited him, his conversation
was rather rational, though I cannot speak positively as
to the years. I remember visiting him in the Alpha-
road and in Montagu-square. In Montagu-square I
had conversation with him about his travels, and he
talked like a sensible man. I have taken Lady Baron's
children to see him; he was glad to see them, and fond
of them. I also visited him in Gloucester-place, where
I found him sensible.
Cross-examined by Sir F. KELLY—I cannot say when
I first became acquainted with him, but it was when he
was about to leave the Alpha-road to come to Montagu-
square. I think he had a fit a short time after he
came to live iu Gloucester-place. I never heard of his
having a fit in Montagu-square. He spoke to mo about
planting trees, and his garden, and so on, when I had
conversations with him. I never stayed in his house over
night. I only visited him in the day time, and stayed
dinner, and played at cards afterwards.
Re-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—I saw Rook and
another young man in attendarce upon him in Glou-
cester•place.
By a juryman—lt was at Gloucester-place, in 1840,
where I played at cards with Sir Gregory; we played at
three-handed whist, and Sir Gregory took a hand.
There was a " dummy."—(Laughter.) Sir Gregory
played very well indeed; he won twice—(Laughter)—
and I lost 2s. by it —(nenewed laughter.) Sir Gregory
was my partner.
Mr. Robert Hare—l am a clerk at Messrs. Coutts's
bank, and I remember his coming to the bank in the
autumn of 1841 to return a visit I had paid him in the
Alpha-road, when he appeared perfectly rational. I had
seen him at the Alpha-road in June of that year for
three or four hours. My wife had been invited to dine
there, and I joined the party at dessert. He conversed
rationally, like other men, on general topics. His con-
duct and behaviour were that of a rational gentleman.
Mrs. Hare, the wife of the preceding witness, corrobo-
rated his statement as to visiting Sir Gregory Turner at
the Alpha-road, in 1841. Sir Gregory on that occasion
conducted himself like a gentleman and a man of sense.
Miss Matilda Dryden, a daughter of the late Sir H.
Dryden, deposed to visiting Sir Gregory Turner twice in
Montague-square, on both which occasions he conducted
himself rationally.
The Rev. Lemster ',Dryden, the plaintiff in the suit
(who was called under an order of the Court of Chan-
cery), remembered visiting Sir Gregory twice in March,
1841, in the Alpha-road. Spent the whole evening with
him on the second occasion; he was perfectly well in his
mind and conversed most rationally. He was then col-
lecting " Nash's Engravings of Baronial Residences."
His conversation turned much on that subject and was
char and rational. From that conversation I should soy •
he was then competent to transact any of the ordinary
business of life.

stituting other provisions for the like purposes:" I do
hereby give notice, that the death of the Right Hon.
George Lord Nugent, late a Member serving in this pre-
sent Parliament for the borough of A3lesbury, bath been
certified to me in writing, under the hands of two Mem-
bers serving in this present Parliament, and that I
shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown
to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to
serve in this pressnt Parliament for the said borough, at
the end of fourteen days after the insertion of this no-
tice in the London Gazette.
Given under my hand the 2d day of Dec., 1850.
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 2.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was addressing the jury for
the defendant when our report kn.
The case is likely to last the whole of to-morrow.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the proprietors of the
London and Blackwall Railway was held this aft.ornoon
ut the London Tavern for the purpose of considering and
determining, upon an application to Parliament in Ilia
ensuing session, for power to make a lino from the
Blackwall Extension Railway to Tilbury Fort, opposite
Gravesend; Mr. J. N. Darticos, chairman of the board of
directors, in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day,
reminded the ;meeting that the North Kent line had
seriously effected the traffic of the Blackwell Railway,
end the lire about to be suggested to the proprietors had
become absolutely necessary for the protection of their
property. A 3ear sor two ago the through traffic from
London to Gravesend, via the railway and boats, was
1,000,000 of passengers per annum. Last year
the number had dropped down to something
like 50,000, and the directors attributed the
falling oil to the opening of the Kentish line.
The• Gravesend !traffic was estimated at 2,000,000 of
passengers per annum, and if this company succeeded
in obtaing this line, which had once been sanctioned by
the House of Commons as the Thames Haven Railway
and Dock, it mould throw about two-thirds of that
amount into their hands. The line could be made for
something like 10,000/. per mile, and when he told them
that they were to be guaranteed 6 per cent. for twenty-
live years upon all their outlay, he thought the pro-
prietors would agree with him that the proposed ex-
tension would prove a most valuable undertaking.
The total estimate of the entire line was
250,0001., and for his part when he looked at the
immense advantage the line was likely to confer upon
their main line, he had no hesitation in recommending
the proprietors to adopt it. Of course the mode of
issuing the shares would be an after consideration, but
at present the plan suggested by the directors was that
they should be first offered to the proprietors and then
to the public.
Tho tollowing heads of a preliminary agreement be-
tween the company and the contractors were then
read:—

" Two eminent contractors, Messrs. S. Morton Pete
and Thomas Brassey, have proposed that, upon the terms
hereafter mentioned, the Blackwell Railway Company,
should apply to Parliament for an Act to make a rail-
way commencing by a junction with the Blackwell Ex
tension Railway :near Bow-common-lane, and passing
thence through East and West Ham, Barking, Dagen-
ham, Raiehani, Grays, and Purfleet, to 'Tilbury. oppo-
site Gravesend, with a branch to join the Eastern
Counties Railway, near Ilford. Upon the Act being
obtained, Messrs. Peto and Brassey will, for the amount
of the estimate to be made, execute all the works neces-
sary for the railway, with stations and conveniences, and
pay for the purchase and compensation. for the land re-
quired; and if the estimate is not sufficient, Messrs. Peto
and Brasseyavill pay the extra money reqnired. Upon
completion of the works Messrs. Peto and Brassey will take
a lease of the line for twenty-five years, at a rental of
six pounds per cent. on the estimate to be made by
Messrs. Cubitt and Rancid'. The net receipts, after
deducting working expenses, rent and maintenance, sa-
laries and charges, are to be equally divided between
the lessees and the Blackwell Railway. The Blackwell
Company are to receive for every passenger
conveyed to or from Tilbury over the Black-
wall Railway, or the Blackwell Extension, the
same fare as the receipts now averaged, and if the total
yearly receipts from such traffic, so calculated when
adned to the receipts of the Blackwell Company from
Gravesend traffic by the river, shall be lehs than the
receipts of the Blackwell Railway from Gravesend traffic
during the year 1850 Messrs. Peto and Brassey are from
time to time to e]ake good the difference."
The CHAIRMAN then moveed the following resolu-
tion—" That this meeting approve of the extention from
the London and Blackwell Railway to Tilbury. with a
branch to Ilford, upon the terms and under the gua-
rantees proposed; and that the directors be
authorized to raise the necessary capital by
tiie issue of new shares to be appropriated
exclusively to this work, and to take all other requisite
proceedings for accomplishing this object, with full
power to relinquish the Ilford branch, if deemed by
Chem expedient.
Mr. tiPACKMAN asked if the guarantee was uncon-
ditional on tee capital which this company might ex-
pend on the line.
The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative.
Mr. SPACEMAN was willing, under the circumstances,
to adopt the proposal, and he would therefore second the
resolution.

A PROPRIETOR asked who was to bear the preliminary
and Pariiamentary expenditure?
The CHAIRMAN replied that in the event of the scheme
not being sectioned by the Legislature, the contractors
would contribute 2,5001. towards the expences. Should
the line be granted the coetractors would pay all the
expellees.
Mr. FOZER wished to know if there would be only the
personal security of the contractors.
The CHAIRMAN admitted that to be so, but it should
be remembered that the line, which would also be a se-
curity, would be in their own possession.
A PROPRIETOR ashed when the interest would become
payable. As the calls were advanced on only when the
line was built.

The CHAIRMAN replied—So soon as the line was made
the interest would begin to accrue.
Several proprietors suggested that the matter should
be delayed for a while till they had hod an opportunity
of considering the agreement calmly, but
The CHAIRMAN reminded them that the matter would
have to be submitted to another meeting.
Mr. LEVY asked if the guarantee could not be well
secured what would be done then?
The CHAIRMAN—We shall not go to Parliament in
that case.

Day and place appointed for holding the Special Com-
missions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery
for the undermentioned places:—
Yorkshire—Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Castle of York.
City of York—the same day, at the Guildhall of the
said city.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.
2d Regiment of Surrey Militia.—The Right Hon.
Arthur Onslow, commonly called Viscount Cranley, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir Richard Frederick, Bart.
resigned.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire.
North Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—The
Right Hon. Arthur Hill Trevor Viscount Dungannon to
be Major, vice Kenyon, resigned; the Hon. Charles
Henry Cust to be Captain, vice Kynaston. resigned;
Lieutenant James Henry Murray Martin to be Captain,
vice Edwards, deceased; Bulkeley Hatchett Bnlkeley
Owen, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Martin, promoted;
Whitehall Dod, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Mansfield,
resigned.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West
Riding of Yorkshire.
2d Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry—
Lieutenant Henry Akroyd to be Captain, vice Pollard,
resigned; Cornet Courtney Kenny Clarke to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Akroyd, promoted, Nov. 26.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 26.

The Right Hon. Sir John' Jervis, Knt., Lord Chief
Justice cf her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
Westminster, has appointed Hugh Beaverßoberts, of Ban-
gor, in the county ot Carnarvon, Gent., to be one of the
Perpetual Commissioners for taking ;the acknowledg-
ments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition (of fines and re-
cuveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurance, in and for the county ot Carnarvon.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 7.

The Right Honourable Sir John Jervis, Knight,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common
Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Edward Oram
Gard, of Devonport, in the county of Devon, Gentle-
man, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for
taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by
married womrn, under the Act passed for the abolition
of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more
simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of
Devon.

Mr. LEVY—WeII, I don't think the line is worth a
ferthing; but with that guarantee I have no objection to
consent to it.

After some further discussion, the resolution was put
and carried, and thanks having been voted to the chair-
man and directors, the meeting terminated.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

At the Council-chamber, Whitehall, the 30th day of
November, 1850. By the Right Hon. the Lords of the
Committee of CoUncil appointed for the consideration of
all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantation.
By virtue of the power given to them by the Designs
Act, 1850, the Lords of the said Committee do hereby
certify the building now being erected in Hyde-park,
on a piece of ground lying between the Kensington-
drive and the ride commonly known as Rotten-row, for
the purposes of the Exhibition of 1851, to be a place of
exhibition within the meaning of the said Act. Signed
by order of the Lords of the said Committee,

AMB BX)TH,
One of the Joint SEcretaries Jf
tie said Committee.
DOWNING-STREET, PLc. 3.
The Queen ' has been pleased to appoint Alexander
Bannerman, E.,..ci , to be Lieutenant-Governor of Prince
Edward Lland. i, ,
NEW WRIT' von -...h.t.Ltstititir
t-.'hi late.Majeay
(O's
In pursuance of the directiOns
.pf 311 Ai.,i, paie a in
the twenty...fourth 7ene of the rein
thig George the 'I hird; intituled "An Act 16 eepeal so '
as 'authorizes the
touch of two Acts, !nada in the t..?ntti a7d,fifactith
years
,-ssue,,:liis, war- !
. ' ' of the Crown Lur rtishin rant 'to the Clerk g out
(17.':Irrel(fitith°ef kihiosuPseresc.fraCjllemaimeoTa' t 9 i
rants for the election of Members to serve in Par-
liament, in like manner therein-mentioned, and for sub-

TWE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY

COURSE OF EA.U.H

iintercana .......... 11 14%
Ditto, three months.. 11 16
Rotterdam .... 11 16
25 30
Brussels ........ ...... 25 30
Hemburgh ......M.B. 13 7
Altona•• •• •• • • • • • • •• ••
Paris, 3 days'sight 25 7%
Ditte, 3 months .... 25 30
Marseilles 25 30
Bourdeaux.... ..... •
Frankfort on Maine.... 118 x
Berlin.• .. • • ...... •• ••
Vienna, effec. d 0."... 13 40
Trieste, ditto.. .. ...... 13 40
Petersbargh, Sit. Rble.. 37%
•• .• •• •• •• •• •• 49%
Barcelorts .....
Bevilla•• •••• •• •• •• ••

MONEY ORDERS. POs'
brophy, Queen's County, I

proof of middling and good mid quality is 2s 10d
to 3s 2d, good 33 to 38 over 3s 3d to 33 7d, fine,
3s 8d to 4s, and superior 4s 2d to 4s 6d. Operations
in Brandy have been upon a large scare, and on the part
of holders there is confidence. Sales of Cognac best
brands of the vintage of 1846 made at 5s 101 to 6s, 1847
ditto 5s 4d to 5s 6d, 1848 ditto 4s 11. d to 5s Id, 1849
ditto 4s 9d to 4s I Id, inferior sorts 3s 2d to 4s Bd.
Galleys in fair request, common is 9d to 2. The market
fur British made Spirit is brisk at 9s 8d to 9s 9d, nett
cash.

RICE.—To-day at public sale 169 boxes Sago sold at
19s to 20s for middling small pearl, one lot good 225;
these are rather lower rates. Of Jamaica Arrywroot
12 cases went at 4d to 9d per lb.
FRIIIT.—To-day at public sale 587 pkgs new Patras
Currants went at 45s to 48s, damaged 42s to 445; 197
brls Lipari 435; 121 brls dates 40s; 265 pkgs damaged
Valencia Basins 395; 1,890 packages Muscatel Raisins,
in boxes at 48s to 80s, half-boxes 50s to 645, -A-boxes
105 s per cwt.
SALTAETRE.—British Refined sells freely at 30s to
303 9d per cwt. For Calcutta the demand is active, and
rather higher rates have been paid, low to fine quality
selling at 27s to 29s per cwt. For arrival several parcels
have been disposed of. Nitrate of Soda is held with
firmness at 14s to 14s 6d, with a fair business doing.
COCHINEAL.—This afternoon the public sales of
Cochineal went at barely former rates, and of 117 bags
a small part only sold, Mexican silvers at 3s 7d to 3s Bd,
Honduras 3s 8d to 3s 9d, Teneriffe 36 8d to 3s 9d, and
black 4s 2d to 4s 3d.

SAFFLOWER.—This afternoon the public sales of 320
bales Bengal went at rather easier rates, but nearly all
sold at 4110 s to 71 12s 6d, and Bombay sort 47s to 793
per cwt.
INDIGO.—To-day at public sale 8 srns Gustimala In-
digo sold at 3s Sd to 4s 3d, 4 chts ord Bengal 3s lod to
4s, 16 chts Indigo samples 23 9d to 5s 10d, but 26 chta
Manilla were withdrawn.

TURPENTINE. —There has been a large business con-
cluded in Spirits, and at advanced rates. British drawn
realized 355 to 355 6d, and American 36s to 363 6d. Of
Rough several parcels have been sold at 7s 9d to Bi.
Prices are firm for Tar, Stockholm at 20s to 20s 6d, and
Archangel 19s 6d to 20s per brl.
METALS.—British Refined Tin has been much in de-
mand, but in block and bar operation➢ have been upon a
limited scale at 80s to 81s, and in East India at 79s
to 79s 64 per cwt. Tin plates have been in Lugo
demand; one C Coke at 27s to 271 6d, and Char-
coal ditto at 325 to 325 6:1 per box. Lead in
good request, British pig at 171 to 171 10s, and
Spanish at 161 to 161 10e. In Speller operations on the
spot continue upon a limited scale at 161 lOs to 16112 s
6d, but large sales have been maeo for delivery at 161 is
6d to 161 lOs per ton. In Scotch Pig Iron a good busi-
ness has been concluded, and the market is firm at 43s
61 for mixed, and at 44s to 448 6d per ton for num-.
her one.

TALLOW.—The demand has much improved for Rus-
sion on the spot during the last few days, and the
market is now firm at 37s to 37s 6d per cwt. for fine
new yellow Candle; and at 36s 61 for old. Sales
are upon a more extensive scalo for delivery
up to the close of the year, and for the two first
months of 1858; whilst the rates raid are 376 to
37s 3d per cwt for new. Herne melted has been in
large demand at 375, net cash for immediate delivery.
In other sorts of Tallow sales ere upon an enlarged
scale; and at auction 286 casks Australian, mostly sold
at 54s to 37s 6d; and 600 packages South American at
34s 3d to 37s per cwt. For public sale 1;000 pkgs are
declared.

Ons.—Pricis are lower for Cod, and isles are upon a
limited scale at 38/ to 39/ per tun. Seal has been oper-
ated in with caution, and prices are on the decline,
ruling at 381 to 381 103 for pale. Of 59 tuns at auction
a small part only sold, tinged 371 to 37/ 10s, straw 35/ 153
to 361103, yellow 351 to 361, brows). 351, and boiled 301 to
30155. Prices remain firm for Southerh at from 35/103 to
381 105 for common to fine; there is also only a limited
quantity on offer, but buyers are not much dis-
posed to operate. Prices continue firm for Sperm,
and a good demaul prevails, there is a diminished sup-
ply, fine colonial realised 871 to 88/, and Headmat-
ter 961 to 991 per tun. Linseed Oil has been
in large demand on the spot both for home consumption
and shipping; prices are also firm, and rule at 33s to 33s
3d per cwt. For delivery a good deal has been done,
and the rates paid are 33s 3d to 33s 6d for three first
months of next year. In Palm sales have been limited,
and fine is offered at 29i. Cocoa Nut continues
to be operated in with caution, Ceylon at 23s to 30s,
and Cochin at 29s to 31s. In Rape Seed Oil there is a
good deal doing; pale at 37s 6d to 383, brown 36s 61,
and foreign pale 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. The market for
Olive has a quiet tone, sellers aro willing to accept 33/
to 44/for Gallipoli; and 41l to 42l 103 for other kinds.

Li-E.-( THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.. .......... ..
Leghorn ........ ••.• • • 31 0
Genoa .. ••••••• • • • • • •• 26 0
Milan . • •• • ••••• • • • • •
Venice• • • • • . • • • • • • • • ••
Naples .. .. ••.... • • 4114,
Palermo, peroz 124
Lisbon.... • • .. 5314
Ororto .• . 63%
Rio Janeiro ........ • •
Buenos Ayres .. ••.. • •
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia .. .. • .....

CSICZII OP BULLION. PEA 02.
Foreign Geld in bare.. £3 17 9
Portagal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

-Hew Dollars .... • • 0 4 11 •N
Silver in bars 0 5 l

IT-OFFICE NOTICE.— Bally.
Ireland, having been consti.

. _
mei a Post town, the ace there will be opened for the
issue and payment of money orders on and after the 6th
December next.

Lass 07 THE GAZELLE.-DEAL, DEC.
doubt as to the loss of the Gazelle and those on board of her
has been removed by the discovery of the wreck on the edge
of the Goodwin Sands When the wreck was discovered the
figurehead was gone, hut the figure of a gazelle was ob-
served painted on the bows, and part of her stern frame, with
" Gazelle, of Liverpool," painted on it, was seen floating
near. No bodies have yet been met with. On Friday the
Gazelle's mail box was picked up and delivered to the post-
office authorities at Margate.

SWANSEA, DEC. S.—Arrd.lebeC.
SHIELDS, DEC. 2.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Aun Eliza
and Jane, Quebec.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 2.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
IN THE MATTER OF JAMES HENRY HANCE.

This insolvent, an advertising discount agent, having
offices in Northumberland-street, Strand, whose case
was before the court on a former occasion, when it ap-
peared that the present was his eighth appearance at
this court and the Court of Bankruptcy, again came up.
An opposition was now made by two Government clerks,
named Drury and Pennell, who had placed a bill in the
insolvent's hands to discount.

Mr. Sargood appeared for a clergyman in Suffolk,
named Bust; Mr. Cooke supported.
The case on the part of the two Government clerks
(young men) was, that they wanted to raise some money,
and they made a bill for 601., which they placed iu the
insolvent's hands to be discounted, telling him they
wanted money for it. He was to have 51. for doing ir.
In a few days he told them they could have 151. in money,
and three pictures worth 451. They took the money and
authorised the insolvent to sell the pictures for thew.
The pictures had net been seen, and 15/. was all that
had been obtained. Proceedings had been taken against
the young men en the bill, and they had made arrange-
ments to pay the same. On the former hearing, the in-
solvent, seeing ono of them in court, gave him an order
on a Mr. Lewis, wine-merchant, of Water-lane, Tower-
street, where he said the pictures were to be had, but on
epartyere was disappointed, and it now
deposited with a Mr. Levy, of
The insolvent, on his examination, stated that the bill
was discounted by Mr. Levy for 151. and three pictures,
Smith-street, goingi
tehd turned out
there
re et h t
, a the
they w
M
which pictures were to be sold by him. They were,
however, still unsold, and were deposited with a "party'
for 11. On being pressed for the name of the party, ho
said it was Mr. Levy, who had discounted the bill. He
thought they were in the hands of Mr. Lewis, when he
gave the order on the fomer occasion.
Mr. Lewis, wine-merchant, of Water-lane, Tower-
street, was examined at some length respecting his con-
nexion with the insolvent. He had been in the habit of
placing bills in his (Lewis's) hands to be discounted, and
he was now a creditor to more than 3001. lie produced
an account of his transactions with the insolvent.

During the hearing of the case of the Government
clerks, it was suggested by Mr. Cooke that the pictures
deposited for.2os. should be sent for, it being admitted
that the clerks were creditors.
Mr. Commissioner LAW declared that he should hear
the case. He could give the insolvent no other designa-
tion than that of a "common cheat," and so he should
deal with him when he gave judgment.
On the part of the clergyman, for whom Mr. Sargood
appeared, it transpired that he became acquainted with
the insolvent through his advertisements, and he placed
in his hands his acceptance for 1001., which would be-
come due next month, and for which ho had not received
one shilling. He wished to ascertain what had become of
the same.

On examination, the insolvent admitted that he had
been in the habit of advertising as " James H.," some-
times as "H. James," leaving out the name " Hance."
He had placed the bill of the clergyman in the hands of
Mr. Lewis, the wine-merchant, to be discounted, and
he afterwards declined to cash it, but retained the bill.

Mr. Lewis, who was ordered out of court during the
insolvent's examination, said he bad the bill, but declined
to answer any questions about it. On being told that
he was bound to do so, he stated that he received it in
September. Addressing the Court, he said he found he
had got into the hands of a disreputable person, and
would give up the bill in 24 hours.
Mr. SARGOOD said of course he should be satisfied with
the bill.
It was elicited from Mr. Lewis that there wero other
bills which he had received from the insolvent to dis.
count, which were not in the accounts produced.
His HoNoun required a fall account from Mr. Lewin,
and the case wag adjourned to Tuesday neat.