The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

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" Victoria, by the grace of God of the United King-
do:n of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender
of the Faith, to John Kandich, keeper of our gaol of
Jersey, in the Island of Jersey, and to John Le Cou-
teur, Viscount of said island, greeting, we command
you that you have the body of Charles Carus Wilson,
detained in our prison under your custody as it is
said, together with the day and cause of his being
taken and detained, by whatsoever name he may be
called or known, in our Court before us at Westmin-
ster, on the eighteenth day of January next, to un-
dergo and receive all and singular such matters and
things which our said Court shall then and there con-
sider of him in this behalf and have there then this
writ. Witness Thomas Lord Denman, at Westmin-
ster, the twenty-third day of December, in the eighth
year of our reign.
" By the Court,

" ROBINSON.
"Endorsed by the Judge : At the instance of
Charles Carus Wilson.
(Signed) " It. M. ROLFE.
" Mr. A. Langdale, 7, Gray's Inn-square, London,
attorney for the said Charles Carus IVilson, 23d
December, 1844."

The efforts of the Viscount and his subordinates to-
day to avoid service were most ludicrous. We were
not obliged to serve a copy upon the Viscount per-
sonally at all, but as counsel suggested that it might
be as well to endeavour to do so, we proceeded about
twelve o'clock to that gentleman's residence, St.
Aubin's, rang the bell, and, in answer to our inquiry,
were told by a middle-aged man servant, that the
Viscount was at home, but too ill to see any person.
We then desired him to inform his master that we
were there with a peremptory writ of habeas corpus,
to bring up the body of Charles Carus Wilson to the
Queen's Bench, England; at the same time exhibit-
ing the original writ and copy. The man departed
on his errand, and presently returning, told us the
Colonel could say nothing about it, finishing with
" I beg your pardon, sir, but I must shut the door.
Ila! ha! ha!"fruly laughable was this absurd ex-
pedient to avoid the service of a writ.
Returning immediately to town, we entered the
Viscount's office, and served the clerks there (Messrs.
Sullivan and Binet) with copies of the writ and
order. Those young and sensitive gentlemen were
even snore alarmed than their master, and very de-
cidedly refused to receive the dreaded papers. Nay,
in excess of zeal, Mr. Binet threw the copies after us
as we descended the stairs. Curious this, for a
lawyer's office. About ten minutes afterwards the
writ was served upon Mr. Kandich, who took such a
mere matter of course quietly and reasonably.
It may be perhaps as well to mention that the ex
hibits mentioned in the rule of Court were the " rule"
obtained by the Solicitor-General, and the affidavits
of Mr. Wilson and the Procureur-General. It will
require more than ordinary impudence, therefore, to
assert on this occasion that the Judge has been sur-
prised into granting the writ.
Is there no limit to the jurisdiction of the Jersey
Royal Court ? None 1 We believe if the eleven
Apostles were to revisit earth, and light upon Jersey,
Judas himself, all the while in England, could throw
them into Jersey gaol, and that our Royal Court
would be glad to pluck them. One Captain R—,
an Englishman, lately visited Jersey from Caen;
owing nothing to any man in England or in Jersey.
An alien—a Frenchman—seeing him here, ordered
the Deputy Viscount of Jersey to arrest Captain
R—, which the Deputy Viscount did—with a
constable's staff, ha% ing a crown at the end of it, and
he did this, mark ye, " in the Queen's name," as if
the captain were a criminal, and without warrant—
without an affidavit of debt—without any security
from the alien Frenchman that he would appear and
prosecute his suit. And in the Queen's name this
Deputy Viscount lodged his prisoner in the Jersey
debtors' prison. In the Queen's name 1 We appre-
hend that without warrant the Queen's name might
have been invoked with a poignard equally lawfully
by the defendant,

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.)
The 72d, or Albany Highlanders, under Lieut.-Colonel
Lord A. Lennox, by the Resistance, troop-ship, from
Cork, were landed at Gibraltar, on the 13th December,
and played into barracks by the bands of the Ist, 7th,
38th, and 79th, to the tune of " Auld tang sync."
The third and last division of the 67th, under Major
Orange, has landed in Dublin from Woolwich.
Captaiu Stokes's company, 6th Battalion Royal Artil-
lery, has embarked at Cork for Bristol, en route to
Woolwich.
Major Harrison's company of Royal Artillery has
embarked at Kingstown for Cork, and arrived yesterday
per Dee steamer.
The troops ordered to O'Brien's-bridge, Silverminos,
Castle Connell, Cappaghmore, Cloghjordan, Borr,so-
leigh, are countermanded for the present.
The detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards, ordered
to march for Killaloe and Nenagh, is countermanded for
the present.
Assistant-Surgeon Stack, 23d depOt, Cork, is on leave
of absence to the 31st December.
Colonel Chatterton, K. 11., 4th Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards, and Mrs. Chatterton, left the Rev. Richard
Dickson's yesterday, for Cahir.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, 11th Regi-
ment, at Chatham, is on leave. The regiment only re•
quires thirty men to complete its strength.
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, com-
mander of the district, attended the Manchester public
dinner last week to Sir Henry Pottinger ; also, Lieute-
nant-Colonel White, 70th, and Major Westenra, sth
Dragoon Guards.
Lieutenant Vansittart, of the Ist, from Barbadoes,
and Captain White and Lieutenant Forbes, 77th, from
Jamaica, have landed at Southampton by the West
India mail steamer, Thames. The islands were gene-
rally healthy.
The Sergeant-Major of the 16th Lancers is promoted
to a cornetcy in the regiment, without purchase.
Lieutenant Grogan, 7th, Lieutenant-ColonelCockburn,
60th, and Lieutenant Shirley, 87th, sold out of the ser-
vice last week.
The Senior-Lieutenant of the 7th Fusileers, and Pay-
master of its depot, has sold out of the service.
Captain Norman's Company, 54th, has arrived at
Ballinansore; county Leitrim, from Mullingar, head-
quarters.

FRIGHTFUL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN JERMYN-
STREET, ST. JAMEB'B.—Yesterday forenoon, a dreadful
accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at a
new building in the progress of erection, situate at the
corner of Jermyn-street, and Duke-street, St. James's-
square, belonging to Mr. Slater, butcher to her Majesty.
It appears that Mr. Archbutt, builder, of Hanover-street,
Chelsea, superintended the erection of the building,
which is chiefly built of stone. On Saturday evening
last, prior to the workmen leaving their work, two mas-
sive stones, each weighing about 500 cwt., forming a
coping between the third and fourth stories, was hoisted
oa to the scaffold, where it was allowed to remain until
Monday morning, when the men returned to their work.
Shortly after nine o'clock, a mason, named John Smith,
was engaged with his chisel, making a hole on one of
the sides of the stones as it lay on the scaffold, when the
putlocks which supported it, broke away, and the scaffold,
the two stones, Smith, and two other workmen, named
William Francis, and Robert Perry, were precipitated
to the basement, a depth of seventy feet, the coping stones
in their descent, carrying with them about twelve
feet of the stone balcony. Francis, one of the three
men, fell head foremost upon one of the stones which
had lodged on the edge of a well which had been covered
over with boards ; but the weight of the stone had dis-
placed one or two of them, and through the opening the
unfortunate men had fallen a further depth of thirty-six
feet. Assistance was immediately procured, and on
being got up from the bottom his skull was found to bo
extensively fractured, and life quite extinct. Smith,
another workman, was discovered lying a few yards
from him insensible, and bleeding profusely from several
wounds in the head ; and a short distance from the
latter lay Perry sensible, but bleeding from several
wounds in the scalp, and covered with bruises and con-
tusions. Francis was conveyed to the Unicorn public-
house opposite, where the body now lies ; and Smith
and Perry were immediately removed to St. George's
Hospital, where but slight hopes are entertained of
Smith's recovery. An inquest was held last evening at
the Unicorn, Jermyn-street, before Mr. Higgs, upon the
body of William Francis, and the jury, after hearing
the facts as above related, returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental Death." The jury appended an opinion that an
excessive weight had been placed on the scaffold, and
that better precautions ought to have been taken.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EGYFT AND INDIA.—
IL is satisfacoary to be able to inform our readers that
Mr. Galloway, the engineer (whose pamphlet on the
Cairo and Suez Railroad, as noticed in the Westminster
Review, we referred to in connexion with the Indian
railways on Friday last) has just left Paris, en route to
Egypt, to commence this great work, projected by his
brother, the Bey, ten years ago. This work must be
looked upon as the first link of the grand chain of rail-
way communication from the Alediterranean so gene.
rally advocated, and so obviously necessary between
England and her Indian possessions, and her recently-
acquired colony in China.—Morning Paper.