The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-24 00:00:00

JOURNALS

We are glad to learn that the receipts of the Polish
ball will amount to about 9001.
SETTLING wITH A CREDITOR.—On Saturday, about
two o'clock, while 31. Scheel', who lived in a country-house
at Louvecienes, near Bongival, on the road to St. Germain,
was walking in his grounds, he was accosted by a person to
whom he had formerly lent 25,000 francs, demanding
another loan. As 31. Schnell hid not seen his debtor for
sixteen years, and the money remained unpaid, he perem-
'l refused • coznpliance making some remonstrances
However, in these days of degeneracy, we may lament againstten the treatment :he had received. Upon thin the ap•
the decline of -zeal in the ministrations of the ordered plicant drew out a pair of pistols, and said, "We will soon
priest, we must at least acknowledge that it has lost settle the account—take your stand ;" and offered 31. Schnell
acne of its pristine ardour in the aspirations of the can- one of the weapon. . He, however, refused this challenge,
didate for that holy office. The " piece of silver " and and held up his hand to. some men who were mowing iti his
the " morsel of bread" still exercise their influence in park, calling them ,to -;his assistance. Upon this the man
all its native freshness and vigour. Nor are these tray- tired at M. Schnell one of the pistols, the bullet from which
lugs of.the aspirant permitted to remain unallayed. The entered his back and lodged there; with the other pistol the
importunity of the seeker awakens the sympathy of the assassin blew out his own brains. M. Schnell was not
dead yesterday, but lay in a dangerous state.---Galignuni. ‘
bestower of office' in a manner truly exemplary ; both
Wyrsiuhrte.--We have now lyinq.befo.re us- a listth
exert themselves with the most laudable emulation to
carry into, effect the principles upon which they are con- wcointliatinviinvgs t e.names of eighteen men,.. living in one patiS ,
e and families, vare ing in number. from, one to
federated.
seven, each family averaging six individuals, and whose
Bat if we would see this system in its full and perfect wages aanonna in no case to above 7e., but which descend as
organisation, we must step over into Wales, and look at low as'a.§.,a;•week F. Where such destitution exists meetings
the practice of the Welsh Church ; and there we shall of the'distreased to tell their griefs, and to compare notes,
find the " piece of silver " and the " morsel of bread " are important. Such meetings will increase. We trust their
stand out as prominently as if they formed the subject of importance will not be overlooked, "A stitch in time saves
sire of the queries in the ordination service, and some nine" is. a homelysaying, but a true one.— Wiltshire Lae-
tesst-ntiftl qualification were connected with their presence. penent••
In that unhappy country we shall find this pernicious PROTECTION OF THE 'DOZE o.y YORK'S MONUMENT.
system as regularly maintained as if some dire fatality —lt appear.; that electrical rods -have been placed- from the
rested on the land, for there we shall find prelates anti base to tfie summit of the Duke of York's pillar to bring down
the lightning. When, ask certain creditors, is it intended
patrians, candidates and examiners, exerting themselves
to carry out this baneful principle with the infatuation on the of his Roe-al Highness to bring down die dust ?
a men doomed to fulfil a curse. pvi,ilL
We have already pointed to the custom in the Welsh 1111"13-C"S3
P,AIL •wAy LINES.—It seems, from
.a
Church of denying to the people the service in their statement by Mr. Laing in one of the Appendices to the
Committee's Report. that the charge per mile for third-class
seatire tongue, and - thereby excluding them from the passengers upon several railways is as follows.:—Eastern
communion, and ultimately driving them 'to the Dis- and
, and Lancaster and Preston. 1•46 d.; Birmingham
renting chapels. We will now rulvert to a concurrent and Derbv, le-tad.; Great North of England, 1.33 d. ; Man-
practice, a branch of the same cankered trunk, of ad- cheater and Birmingham, Sheffield aed Manchester, and
witting into orders and instituting to livings men lingua_ Chester and Birkenhead, 1.95 d. • North Midland, 1.511. ,•
York and North,Midland,l•24(l.; Midland Counties', ld. and
'tiled for their office, through an utter ignorance of the
The Great Western Company ch'arge.
language of the-people whom they undertake to in- i Southou Eastern, O'S(id.
atruet. That an abuse so enormous should he suffered 1 per mile
iirn;l
itnh et London and South-Western Corn-
ell:es, 1
itit. ;naanird.e(tihethGerata eitinc-
I apany, 1.11.,
to exist is absolutely incredible, except upon positive 1 a, aaa. 'ln tile fourg
and -ocular testimony ; but, unhappily, in Wales such passengers are not taken by (Tamil. traies.—Raineae (ife-,,ce'tel
testitnony thrusts itself upon our notice, in whatever CAMBLETOWN.—Great preparations have been made
direction we move.- For the last century the Welsh here for the herring fishery this season. Upwards of
bishops have none of them been natives of the Prince- one huncked and fifty boats are already afloat, and this
,pality, and, of course, true to the; ystem of nepotism by fleet is shortly to he joined by forty new boats, built fit
which they themselves were placed in their respective the low country on an improved plan, and of a larger I THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MRS. BELANEY.—
%-tatirms,-they never failed- to bestow upon their English size than 110)si formerly used here. The greater I [From the • Tyne l'Unrcury of Tuesday last].—Deeern FROM
relatives and friends such livings and dignities as fell to number of their, and particularly the new ones, I Pitosste ACM—A great sensation has been produced in the
theie gift, and were worth accepting ; and where pri- are to he supplied with the patent machine. nets, quiet village of North Sunderland during the past week, by
vate advowsons existed, the same system of resents- and the' trains to be of greater length, in the
.sudden death of Mrs. Belaney, and the extraordinary
circumstances attending it.—[Then follows an abridgement
lion obtained ; the bishop, of course, extending tewards proportion to the size of the boats, than those formerly
ether patrons a liberal indulgence, and refraining from in use. 'The larger trains will extend to twenty-five by the 7'yne Mercuru of the facts of the case as they appeared
rigid •an inquiry into qualifications. By such prat-
too pieces, each piece being fifty fathom' • length.
in The
ia the Welsh churches became to a great extent ocett- ar 7e boats have a crew kf five men, the second size font derland, one stating that Mrs.l3elaney was very ill, and that
Pied by men unacquainted with the language of the men, and the small- r ones three men each—thus afford-. two ysicians were attending her, and the other announcing
country ; the poorer benefices alone escaping the tor- I mg her death; both, however, had been written after her decease.
employment in a number of individuals who anti.
It is said that the body of- Mrs. Skelly, the mother of the
rupting influence. In the course of time the effects of ! leip-ate a prosperous fishing, for which a ready market is deemsed, will be disinterred, as there are suspicions afloat as
this syst . em began to show themselves in the rise of Dis- j found in Glasgow at it.higli price, in the comineneement to the cause of death; more especially from the strange
sent, and the inhabitants of the Principality from beina. lof the season, the herrings being carried there fresh by manner in whichi the funeral was conducted. Mrs. Belaney,
a strict and constant Church-obi op'e became a ease the steareers,whose dthl as cast a gloom over the village, was 22 years
.of determined and and those caught in the latter end of the
was -no trilling sense of
inveterate Dissenter=. ' Doubtless, it
injurthat
could , season being cured use.—Scotch Pa er for winter Pap e,•. of age, and beloved by a large number of devoted friends;
y
eople, so attached to ancient customs as the Medsh tt ...,TAls or a.a.ann.—LtwEaroor..— Par. lialnentary s
Sunderland, and has therefore no brother in Essex,' as stated
forsake the hereditary habits of their country, by the daily papers, nor has the prisoner possessions in West-
a'
and ; , discussion has absorbed a harge portion of the attention of the
those places of worship to which they had cc- mercantile world, •and business has again suffered from the
loantion
moreland.
unsettled state cf the great measures that have been brought
sorted in their youth, and where the graves of theirfore- forw'ard'. So firi as Liverpool is concerned, these changes EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF SELF-DESTRUCTION BY
fathers lay. But such was the
A LADY.—At the close of an -inquest on Thursday, a
violence done to their ' have met with no 'favour. Whig, Tory, and Radical, all feel
feelings by the unprincipled, and oppressive proceedings . that something more is intended than meets the eye, and so juror remarked that it was"to be regretted that more in-
of those ecclesiastical traffickers who were sent amongst • long as the mystery is preserved, mercantile arrangements quests were not held, for he, was satisfied that many
them, that the strong bands of early attachment, and are unsafe. As it is, very considerable engagements have c ime by their deaths unfairly, w'thout the slightest no-
even of reilii, andious association, were rent assunder, and the 'already been made for the supply of foreign free labour sugar; lice being taken of them. Mr, Walley agreed with the
people of ales are at this moment a nation of Dissen- ' and had the Aliniterial measure been negatived again on speaker, and he, too, was convinced. that scores were an-
ters, &teeming every day more and more exasperated Monday night, very considerable losses must have ensued. nually murdered in London
,with Impunity. Since he
The large arrivals of Kmiec° during the last fortnight are against that Church out of whose communion they Were the
on the office of coroner, most extraordinary
now coming on the market, and we have this week expe-
driveri.
lloweverrienced a better feeling in all branches, both buyer and seller cases came before him. A gentleman lately called upon
;at length these evils began to assume an as- being ilistv,sed to do business. Money is plentiful, and him, and requested him to hold au inquest upon his
peel so threatening, that it was determined that persons readily olltainalile at low rates, on good security, yet there is I Sister, who had died after nineteen hours' excruciating
appointed to Welsh parishes should be acquainted with very little speettlat ion going an. Cotton has been in better agony. As she had been so long ill he-did not think it a
the Welsh language, and that all candidates should tin- nelneisl'iil ' the trade have eMile forward more freely, and the 1 proper case for inquiry: but her brother requested him
dergfOrn examination in that language. The effect of L.
midz been larger than for many weeks, whilst the prices to hold an inquiry, as unpleasant rumours had been eir-
this wale that every man who had any prospect of a wr
more healthyi m-113 are certainly a shade higher, and there is a culeted in consequence of her having been seized with ill-
Welsh curacy, or a Welsh living, applied himself with . has been lighta,lrec,rannee altogether. The import this week : ness just after parting with - her lover. Mr. Wakley,
all hie energies to the acquiring of the language, pro- A favourable change o'fi‘Teraietrern whith the
apereevions
_fieirtnight i therefore, ordered the body tO, be opened, preparatory to
Wising himself to be able in the few months allowed him, pearance on the Corn Exchange. %Pere
nowdwaen
ems
sltlitrtetd ap- the inquest. Upon examination, it was ascertained she
to master a new and difficult language, whose idioms little chance of a low rate of duty this summer, and, thveerre): f had taken a large quantity of vitriol, which destroyed
and pronouneiation were, previous to that tinie, totally fore, what foreign supplies-bare been received must lose I the hack of her throat and her gullet, and also burnt two
112km:evil to.him.. And now we find another striking . money for the importers.—Lirerpool Ilfercury. •' I holes in her stomach. That 'she had taken the poison
feature present itself to our view : the bishops are, but : 11
—uTTEnniEs.—,Numbers of persons have been' herself there was not the slightest doubt; for to avoid it
avith ' one single exception, all of them utterly ' attracted, . inthe course of last week, to witness in the 1 being detected that she took poison, she
.so poured the
amd 'hopelessly ignorant of the language, and, ' window of Mr. Wiley, in the Haymarket, Sheffield, the 1 vitriol down her throat that it-did.not injure either her
therefore, the examination is entrusted to a deputy. How development from the chrysalis of several beautiful ' lips or tongue, and yet (said Mr. Wakley) the lady who
that duty is performed Will not be asked, when we apeaameas of the swallow-tailed butterfly (Papilio I evinced so much fortitude in a bad cause was only eigh-
state, .of the multitudes of candidates of all ages and . tilachaon), the largest, and perhaps the handsomest of teen years of age,
eafPac:lties who, after four or_ five month's' stud have have ' our British butterflies. The insect is not unr,eminen in RAILWAY 'rRAVELLING.—Mr. Robert Weale, an
411,e ere
d' themselves for examination, cot one has evert the South, and more especiilly in France, where, from Assistant Poor-law Commissioner; states incidentally; in one
been
Men are often plucked, in a Latin exami- : its attachment to the wild carrot, it is called the Grand of the. Appendices to the' Report of the Select Committee on
, 0 eerflti% It . a course of study of ten or fifteen years ; ! Carrottier. It was, certainly, a curious sight to persona yailways, that, from the Ist of Jannary, 1839, to the Ist of
'o'
...i.taela _ !tires- Welsh in half as many
--ariv
mouths ! . unacuainted with entomology, to see the splendid butter- anual'Y, 1842, he had travelled over nearly 9,000 miles of
railway, " withoutmeeting with a single acct.& "
en and that
.aa yel
~ ew : listed with tl
and presently,
le communication th-ottah . fly from its 'confined cerement, on no occasion had
- t a. --- ' :' ' •
he "experienced any other than the most
. A. t the great mysteriesof 1•* ' • 9 burst
. • t f flowers in civil . .
sa
,I.ation ; he is, expanding its wings, alight upon a bouque. 0 and obliging treatment from the officers employed by the
1 --,72-_,,,` '-''' ••! , sent forth to instruct the igno- , the window.—Duncaster Gazelle. different Companies."— Railway
Record. ' '' ' •

THE WELSH CHURCH.
(FROM A:CORRESPONDENT.)

" Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices that
I may eat a piece of bread."

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FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—The present position of Sir Robert Peel
towards his party suggests many similitudes ; but
scarcely will it suggest such another as that of this
morning's Herald. With reference to Mr. Duncombe's
apostrophe of the other night in the House of Commons,
the Herald says :—" A saucy, off-hand sort of style may
do very well among the ladies, or even at White Con-
duit House ; but they would tell Mr. Duncombe at the
Zoological Gardens, You had better not touch the lion
with that parasol."' The Prime Minister then is the
lion, and the House must be understood to form the
rest of the collection. This is scarcely more compli-
mentary, on the whole, than Mr. Duncombe's original si-
mile. Unaccustomed as we are to deal in zoological s-i
miles—if we must needs compare Sir Robert Peel to the
lion, we should have compared his majority to the man
who had got his head in the lion's mouth. " Doth he
wag his tail ?"—demands the wretch, whose brain-piece
is thus compromised—" then the Lord have mercy upon
me !" Sir Robert Peel wags his tongue, and the House
trembles. The" Government organ affirms, however, that
all parties have been damaged by the inconsistent votes
on the sugar question. We are content to take its aver-
ment—as it is certainly true of more than one party.
And we want to know what that Government is, whose
inscrutable course works damage to all parties. At an
early period of this administration Lord Stanley (if we
rightly recollect) applied to its head the,spirited lines
addressed to the Protector Cromwell :
" Still as you rise, the State exalted too,
Finds no disturbance while 'tis ruled by you_
liuled like the world's great scene, when, without noise,
The rising sun night's vulgar lights destroys."
We are now told, however, and to a large extent the
statement is true, that parties, instead of being raised,
are lowered, by the Parliamentary tactics of this Minis-
try. To produce this result, there must be faults on
both sides—there must be something faulty in the morale
of Parliament—bUt there must also be something very
wrong, or very defective in its present management.
Sir . Robert Peel is entirely unwarranted in citing
the precedent of Lord Althorp, and the rescission of a
vote of the House of Commons upon the Malt Tax. The
vote to reduce that tax occurred in a thin House, and by
Surprise. Lord Althorp told the House, when it re-as-
sembled in larger numbers, that it involved fiaau.-
cial consequences which appeared to have been
overlooked. He therefore invited the reconsideration
of the vote on its own merits. He did not
vapour about it as a symptom of want of con&
denbe, if adhered to. He did not threaten the House
with: the loss of his own indispensable services. He
simply told them what he was bound to tell them, as a
finance Minister. And the House voted with him, be-
cause they believed his word, and deferred to his views,
in that Character. Entirely different was the demand of
Sir It Peel on the confidence of his followers. They
were to rescind their vote, not because it was im-
portant, and seemed precipitate, but because it had
been deliberate, and because it was not important.
That it had been deliberate there was no question—for
Sir Robert Peel chose to call it preeoncerted. It
was fully anticipated, in the City, as in other places,
that Mr. Miles's motion would be carried. Ministers
should have been prepared for this as fully as were all
other men. If there was concert, there was assuredly
no secret conspiracy. Ministers had only to send Tad-
pole or Taper to Mincing-lane or on 'Change, to learn
with accuracy—even within one or two of the numbers—
the coming vote. The "great fact" of the division was
counted upon at Liverpool ere it took place in-London.
Are we to suppose that Ministers were wrapt from all
mortal ken in their Ida of Downing-street—hidden from
all men—all men hidden from them —at this critical
moment ? Short of this supernatural seclusion, they
must have well known what was coming. If they did
not, are they not nice men to manage a popular Legis-
lature ? 'Are they not nice leaders of a party—and
intimately in that party's confidence ? If they did
know what was coming, are they not fine guardians
of the honour of Parliament in making no provision
against such a vote—giving no note of their inten-
tions (Sir Robert Peel sat biting his thumb during
the debate, and no one asked, "Do you bite your,
thumb , at me, Sir ?")—but silently reserving them-
selves to demand that the vote, when passed, should
be rescinded. We don't believe such a piece of contempt
was ever hazarded on any assembly—that is to say sup-
posing the vote of last Friday week was anticipated.
Supposing it was not—we can only repeat, Nice leaders !
—nice confidential party ! On that supposition, Sir
Robert ,resembled something more cornuted than our
friend the lion, and was nearly the only man in London
unknowingof the "great fact"-which most concerned him.
STANDARD—The House of Lords was last night
occupied for a very considerable time comparing the
rival Bills of Lords Brougham and Cottenham on the
subject of imprisonment for debt, and examining the
pretensions of each measure, both of which were in the
end ordered to be cast into the crucible of a Select
Committee, in order to amalgamate them into something
as nearly perfect as possible. Not having seen
either Bill (for the House of Lords stilt care-
fully guards its papers), we are in no condi-
tion to form any judgment upon either ; prima
facie, however, we must of course preer the
measure of. Lord Brougham, who has done so much
good in legislation, to the Bill of Lord Cottenham, who
has done nothing, or at least nothing but mischief !
Upon the general purpose of the two measures, there
can be, we would hope, but little difference of opinion ;
debt is not necessarily a crime, and, therefore, ought
not to be punished as a crime. On the other hand,
credit is very often a crime, - and, therefore, the
creditor ought not to be armed with the power of
adding crime to crime by imprisoning and ruining
the unhappy debtor whom he may have en-
trapped. But if credit is often equally blameable
with debt, surely the presumption ought to be in favour
of the debtor ; and the onus of proving a criminality in i
the debt ought, in the first instance, to be thrown upon
the creditor. If there is any one who supposes that ,it
matters nothing with which party you begin in sifting
out the guilt of a debt, he knows very little of the work-
ing of the law of debtor and creditor ; for he forgets
that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the recovery
of the costs, and not of the debt, is the weapon wielded
by the creditor ; the thing dreaded by the unhappy
debtor. This fiction of the non-existence of costs is,
indeed, a deluSion much encouraged by the way in
which, questions of law reform are discussed in Par-
liament, and, may we be pardoned for saying it, by the
demeanour of judges on the bench. To read parFa-
mentary debates and the charges of judges at nisi prius,
one would think that there is no such thing as a bill of
costs in the world. The debtor, says a Noble Lord, a
Mqmber of the House of Commons, may file his petition—
rea apply -for, ajudge's order—may do this or do that ;
ivhTeas, the debtor may do nothing of the kind un-
lesa he• has money in his pocket, and a good deal of
money too, which we suppose is not always the, case
with debtors. So in the courts of justice we bear the
judges constantly telling juries that they must give
some dainages, because of a .legal presumption
(though every.' one in court can safely swear that
no damage has, been suffered), but earnestly ex-
horting them not to give intemperate damages ;
and this farce is carried on whilst the difference •
besween temperate and intemperate damages would
be 'at most 501., whereas the difference to the par-
ties between- any damages and none will aeiount
to 5001. Well may the judge recommend tem-
perate damages, when he has himself saddled the
hapless defendant with most intemperate costs. If
law were a merely speculative science, it might
be very well to reject all consideration of costs from
legislation ; just as in inquiries of pure physical
science, we -do net think it necessary to admit
friction as an element in our calculation ; but, as the
practical engineer will certainly blunder if he make
no allowance for friction in his expected results, so
the I...gislator who forgets costs will do evil as often as
ile does good by his law reforms. The analogy is,
indeed, a feeble one, for 'no moving power was
ever overcome by friction to the same degree that the
adniinistration,of justice is overwhelmed by costs. This
consideration will explain why we think it of vital im-
portance that the onus of all the necessary expense
should be in the first instance thrown upon the creditor.
This, of course, will lead to particular cases of hard-
ship, end even of injustice ; but the opposite course
must lead to twenty times as many such cases.

- ' COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jane 21.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at. Westminster, before the Lord
CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.)
THE ATTORNEY-GF-NERAL V. C. CANDY.
This was an information filed by the Attorney-General
against the defendant, to convict him in penalties for his par-
ticipation in various transactions which form a part of the
Custom-house frauds. Matters having been compromised in
this Action as well as in the others, its particulars were not
gone into. _ _

Mr. JERVIS, on behalf of the Crown, said that his Learned
Friends for the defendant had consented to a verdict for the
Crown, in the single value of 2,9181. 183.
The jury gave their verdict accordingly.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. W. DEAN.
Mr. Jervis, for the'Crown, accepted a verdict in the single
value of 2,9181. 18s. Verdict for the Crown.

THE ATTO RN EY 4117.2 i ERA L V. C. CANDY.
Mr. Jervis accepted a verdict for the Crown in th:, singe
value of 2,7551 4s. Verdict for the Crown.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. W. DEAN.
Mt. Jervis accepted a verdict for the Crown in the single
value of 2,755/..445. Verdict entered for the Crown accord-
ingly. _

(Before .a Common Jury.)
• LANCASTER V. GRUNDY.
This was 'an action under the Dramatic Authors' Act, to
recover damages of the defendant for having played certain
pieces without the permission of the author.
Mr. Jervis and Mr. Chambers appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. D: Babington King for the defence.
Mr. Lancaster, the plaintiff in this action, is a gentleman
who has acquired considerable reputation by his talents for
writing, andhis additions to the English drama. He is the
author and proprietor of Oxberry's Budget, as was admitted
by the Learned Counsel for the defendant. The ground of
complaint against the latter is, that he has caused the plays
of the plaintiff to be represented at the Standard Theatre,
without allowing the plaintiff either the interest he has in
those plays, or the consequences of an unfavourable impres-
sion on the minds of the community, arising from the want
of adequate appliances. • The pieces in question were acted
before and after Christmas, 1843. The Last Stake, or, a
Maiden's Hazard, was played for ten nights ; The Soldier's
Dream; thirteen nights; The Lady of the Louvre, seven
nights; Ups and Downs, ten nights; Linda of Chanzouni, six
nights; The Two Fishermen of Lynn, nine nights; The
Wager, eight nightS; Claude Gower, two flights; and, The
Rose of Ettrich Vale, for five nights. Thus, it appears that
the plays of the plaintiff have been represented during
seventy nights, and the Act •to which we have referred in
the opening, allowing 21. as a. limit to be recovered on each
representation, the damages claimed amount to 1401
Mr. King, for defendant, brought evidence to prove that
plaintiff was engaged to write for defendant at 245. per week,
and set up three grounds on which he was entitled to a ver-
dict. These were deduced from the correspondence of the
parties to the action, from which the Learned Counsel con-
tended that the plays were written in the performance of
plaintiff's engagement, and performed under the sanction.' of
his personal and immediate direction.

JEuvls having replied,
His LORDSHIP summed up at some length, and the jury im-
mediately gave a verdict for. plaintiff—Damages, 1401., as
stated abo'e.

STOCKING -MAKERS' SHOPS.—We understand that
the master framework-knitters are about to adopt rules for
the better governance of their wirkshops, as respects peace,
good order/ and regularity--:a measure long wanted in this
locality. fhe same regulation has long prevailed in Lanca-
shire and other manufacturing districts, and been found to
act well in preventing the use of improper language and con-
versation.—Leicester Journal.