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London, England, 1850-11-14 00:00:00

The RECORDER—Perecns having salaries chargeable
on the Consoliaated Fund were entiVed, he e,aitended, to
those salaries wholly irrespective of the Crown.
Lord CAMPBELL—I apprehend the Crown has no 61-
Cretion, and it has no control.
The RECORDER—Ex.ctIy so. Now, that Act having
pas: ea, his late Majesty V‘ ilfiam IV. diel on the 20th
June, 1837. The Act of Par!lateen: enabling his Ma-
jesty to grant a jointure, as well as the deed of jointure
itself, direct, d the p') meat of the annuity to be made on
four particular days iu the year, one of which was the
30,h of June. On the 30th et June—his Majesty hav-
ing died on the 20:h of June—the whole quarter's in-
come was paid to her late Maje sty. That was resisted
at the time, and though it did not appear strictly on the
affidavits, he (the Recorder) believed one of their Lord-
ships was consulted at that time; and it was not only
the n ot your Lordship that the same should be
pain; but also he (the Recorder) was bound to admit,
that if ever the question arose again it would be hostile
to the view he (,tie Recorder) was now advocating.
Lord CAMPBELL—Any opinion, Mr. Recorder, 1 gave
when I was Attorney-G,neraa I should consider ot no
restrailit on me now. That opinion will not weigh a
feather in any quarter, nor will it be any obstacle in the
treatment of this case by me. 1 have ao difficulty in
saying the pint is quite sufficiently doubtful to be fit
for consideration by the proper tribunal. My doubt is
now whet er this be the proper tribunal fur deciding it.
The RECORDER resum•d—The late Queen Adelaide
was in the receipt of the income granted to her by Par-
liament up to the 30th of Sepietribei- last. How her Ma-
jesty ePent that income, it was nut fur him to say; but
he might observe that that income was amply suffi-
cient far the maintenance of the dignify of the Crown,
and her Majesty did maintain that dignity in a manner
which reflected ere dit on her. Her munificent charities—

I COPYING ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
Mr. F. C. Bakewell Las invented a very ingeniona de-
scription of teegraph, which bids fair to rival, it cot
excel, the discoveries of Seemtnering, Davy, Morse, and
Bain, and give increased facilities and eh( apneas to this
marvellous method of communication. Not content with
the mere transmission of messages, Mr. Bakewell pro-
poses b) his telegraph to secure a fac simile of the hand-
writing in which it is convey. d, and this he secures in
the following ma' nor:—The original communication is
inscrib.d on a piece of tin foil isi,h varnish, and this tin
toil is placed round a cylinder which is made to revolve
by a weight. A point connected with the voltaic bat-
, tery presses on it as it turns, but the current of electri-
' city is discontinued as soon as it touches the writing in
varnish on the tin foil. On the cylinder of
the receiving instrument, which is also set in
motion by a weight, a piece of paper satu-
rated with touristic acid and prussiat of potuss is also
placed. Upon this a point with a steel wire presses, the
current of electricity passing through which and acting
on the muriatic acid, turns the paper blue, except where
the writing in varnish has interrupted the current.
These spaces are left of the original colour, and form as
nearly as pissible a fac simile of the writing on the tin
toil. The points referred to being attached to nuts on
fine screws traverse regularly the inscription, and seven
revolutions of the cylinder, each of which occupy about
two seconds of time, are sufficient to indicate each line.
The machine may be constructed as to diminish or mag-
nify the characters of the original communication, and
Mr. Bakewell says it can be applitd to printed matter
with even greater facility than to what is written. The
chief difficulty with which he has had to contend lay in
making the revolutions of the two cylinders correspond
exactly, and this he has endeavoured to overcome by
means of an electro-magnetic regulator, which acts upon
the receiving instrument and checks its motion so as to
keep pace with the other. The machine is still in an expe-
rimental state, and evidently short of perfection; but
suffivient success has been secured to render the practic:l
result aimed at almost certain, and it is impossible to
witness the delicacy and ingt nuity of the process without
feelings of surprise and delight. If brought iuto actual
operation this discovery will be available with the pre-
sent wires and voltaic battery, so that should it be
adopted in preference to the present system no great
additional expense will be incurred. The telegraph now
in use in this country has, as our readers are aware,
been of lets strongly reflected on, and certainly in prat
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satisfied of his having been guilty of one or more of five
rpcified offences, one of which was the concealing of
i property, or doing any other act with the view or
ditnt-
nithir:g he dividend to be paid under his estate, or giv-
ing any particular creditor an advantage over another.
Now, the anjudicator in this case suspended the bank-
rupt'. certificate for concealing property attar his first
exmitiation, and it was contended that the adjudication
was bad because it did not impute any intent to the
bankrupt, as the Act of Parliament required The Bank-
ruptcy Act provided that the certificate of debt
.sh:tuld be granted " when" the bankrupt's certi-
ficate had been disallowed, and the Learned
Ccunsel contended that the granting was either a
judicial or a ministerial act. If the former a notice ought
to have been given to the bankrupt, which had not been
done here, that the certificate would be applied for, but
if the later none would be necessary, while the word
" when" would seem to imply that the certificate of debt
must be'clemanded at the bankrupt's certificate meeting.
Mr. Justice PATTESON could not take that view of
the Act.
ti. HILL said then he would confine himself to
the objection to the certificate of adjudication. His Lord-
ship would see, that if it were held to he good in law, it
would lead to great injustice, inasmuch as a bankrupt
might unconsciously keep back property without any
such intent as that specified in the Act, and the Com-
missioner, viewing it in the light of a concealment, might
unfairly withhold his certificate.

Mr. Justice PATTESON—YOU may take a rule in the
alternative.—Rules nisi accordingly,

BULLOCK v. BENTwICK.

Mr. Justice PATTESuN gave judgment in this Case.
This was a rule to show cause why en order of Mr.
Baron Platt, to hold the defendant to bail in 3001 should
not F e resci' ded, end why the defendant sin u 1•1 not be
discharged from custody. In dealing with the first part
of the rule, his Lordship said it WAS his province to act
only as a court or appeal, and he therefore could not
travel out of the affidavits upon which the order was ori-
entally made, though in dealing with the second part he
could dial with the circumstances sworn to subsequently
to the arrest of the defendant. The first objection, then,
taken to the affidavit upon which the order was made
was, that the plaintiff did not swear that he believed
that he had sustained damage to any specifii d amount
Now, though it was desirable that this should always ue
done, it was not indispensably necessary, since all that
the Act of Parliament required was, that the judge
should be satisfied that the affidavit disclosed a case of
action for damages beyond 201., and it was for the Court,
to decide now whether or no the affidavit carried that
information' upon the face of it. Now the plaintiff was
sure that his wife was stolen from his protection
two }ears ago, and • during the time that had
since expired he had expended 600/. in searching
for her, and that. recently he had-discovered her living
under the protection, and in adultery, with the defendant.
Whether that was true was riot the question; it was
whether it disclosed a good case of action for damages
beyond 201. that bad to be decided. The.plaintiff went
on • to depose that he afterwards ascertained that the de-
fendant's name was not Bentwick, and going to the de-
fendant's residence to ascertain what his real name was,
the defendant came out to him, with a cigar in his month,
and said, " What the devil do you want here?" and on
the plaintiff replying, that all he wanted was civility
and his name, the defendant declared that if he pelted
him with any law or commenced any action against him, he
would leave the country and carry the wife with him. This
the Learned Judge considered disclosed sufficient cause of
action, and justified the making:of the order, and overruling
some other minor objections which had been raised to the
affidavit, he directed the first part of the rule to be dis-
missed. lie went next into the question of discharging
the prisoner from custody, and in dealing with this part
f the matter, what he had to decide was,' whether the
affidavits of the defendant stared sufficient grounds to
satisfy the Court that be neither intended now, nor did
he ever, contemplate quitting the country to avoid the
consequences of his conduct; and, after going carefully
ihrou,.h the whole of the case, his Lordship said he had
arrived at the conclusion that the defendant would Ge
across the water at once if he were to let him out o
prison. The rule must therefore be dismissed.
Rule discharged accordingly.

Lord CAMPBELL (interrupting)—With all respect for
the memory ut ih,.t most piens, excellent, and virtuous
wcfnati, I may say we shoo d have no difficulty in grant-
ing this application if the question were how she ex-
pended her income.
The RECORDER had only meant to advert to that sub-
ject. . On the 2d of December Queen Ade-
laide di. d. There was, therefore, a period between the
30th ef September and the 2d of December, during
which her Majesty lived and the terms of the Act of
Parliament coutinu. d; and it was for that portion, at all
events, if not for the whole quarter, that this
application was . now made by the sole surviving
trustee, on behalf of her ex* cutors. At all events,
if the whole or any part was du.,, the time had arrive d
tr payment being made. In June last, afer some pre-
liminary application to the Treasury, a formal applica-
tion was wee by Lord Brougbain-to the Treasury, re-
oiting the Act of Parliament, and pointing out the
grounds on which the claim was made. That was
further backed by a letter from the chief executor of
her late Majesty. In answer to that application, Mr.
, .flayter, the Secretary of the Treasury, in a- letter,
dated June 12, 1850, informed Lord Brougham that the
Lords et.mmissioners of the Treasury thought that no
sum of money had accrued due, in respect of her late
Majesty's annuity, since the 30th of September, 1849,
and that they had no authority to issue any such war-.

rant for payment of any sum of money beyild that-pe-
riod, a; was requested by his Lordship. •
Lord CAMPBELL—Take a rule to show cause, Mr.
Recorder. •
The REC,RDER said he wished the rule to be in this
form:—A rule to show cause why a mandamus should
not issue to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, commanding them to issue such warrants and
give such directions as by law they were required, for
the payment to Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux of the
arrears in respect of the quarter ending 30th December,
1849, of an annuity of 100,000 t, charged and payable
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and It el ,nd to the late Queen Auelaide,
under and by virtue 01 the Ist and 2d Wm. IV., c. 11.
The COURT assented, and a zule to show cause was
granted accordingly.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittniks In Bunco.)
TIINVAITES V NASH.

This case was tried in blt dteeex~at the last sittings
in tom, before Mr. Justice Ciesswull, when a verdict
was found for the plaintiff, damages 2001.
Mr. PRENTTCE now moved for a new trial, on the
ground ot suf pri,e, and also that the catnages were ex-
cesaive. The until n was brought on two promissory
notes for 140/. and 30/., which ht., been given by the
d fendant in payment fir certain work and labour done
by the plaintiff as attorney. The defendant, in his pleas,
set up a contemporaneous agreement in wtiting, to thk
effect that the notes to question should not
t.® paid until certain morels had been recovered by
him from the Great Western Railway Company. It will
be recollected that iu 1845 a great number of rob-
be'ries to k place on the Great %V, stern and teber rail-
ways, and that Mr. Nash was einployed by Mr Charles
Russell, the chairman ot the Great Western Company,

SHERIFFS' COURT T HIS DAY.
(Before Mr. Uudtr•Sberiff BURCHELL.)
HuWE V. DEWY.

This was an action to recover the sum of 2L, the
balance of a joint and several promissory note for 51. 45.,
ot which defendant was alleged to be the maker.
Del-indent pleaded that he did not Make the note; but
a witt,eas was called who proved the signature.
This was another of those 'cases in which money was
borrowed payable by weekly instalments, wilb a condi-
tion that an action might be brought in chAault of either
ot the pa) /Dents. •
:k" r. Tnomes said th. plaintiff only sought to recover
2L, and a verdict was given for that sum.

to tree. out the persons who committed these extensive
depredations, and who, it would se ern, were in the barfit
of returning the stolen parcels on receiving a promise
of reward from their owners. He succeeded in bringing
to justice two persons, named Garrett and Maynard,
Who were convicted at the Old Bailey; he also gave two
ethers, Wareham and his wife, into custody on a similar
charge, but they were dismissed, and afterwards they
insti uied two actions for false imprisonment against
Mr. Nash. These actions were tried and a verdict of a
farthing damages returned. Mr. Thwaites, who was a
solicitor arid friend of Mr. Nash, agreed to defend he
erten, and it was for the rucov, ry of the costs so incurred
that the present action had been instituted. Mr. Russell
had given Mr. Nash a verbal indemnity against all the
expenses be. might t,e put to on babel of the company,
and they were taxed at 1 0001. Mr. Nash, in the mean-
time, became a bankrup,, and his assignees sued Mr.
Russell fur the sum, and at the trial a verdict was taken
by consent for the plaintiffs, the am.iunt of costs being
referred to a geutik-man at the bar, who awarded only
450/., the exact amout.t of expenses actually
iecuried. While this reference was being heard,
Mr. Nash sent the t-vo promissory notes
to Mr. Thwaites, accompanied by a letter saying that be
was not to expect payment for them until he obtained
his costs from the Great Western Company, or at least
for a long time; and Mr. Thwaites appeared to have
consented to those terms. Mr. Prentice now contended,
in support of his present application, that as the lettet
was written arid delivered at the same time as the pro.
missury notes, it was to be considered as a contempora-
neous agreement, and that Mr. Thwaites was, therefore,
not entitled to sue on the notes, as Mr. Nash had not
received the full amount of his claim from the company.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—I don't think we can put such
a construction on the letter, as Mr. Nash says, in the
event of his not obtaining his costs from the company;
the plaintiff was nut to expect payment, at least for a
long time." it a man sends a promissory note for 100/.
to a creditor at six months' date, together with a letter
saying the times are bad, and that he wiil not be able to
pay until the lapse of nine months, can it be said that
the letter must be taken as part of the terms and condi-
tions in the ?

LITERATURE.

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF SCOT-
LAND. Vol. I. By Agnes Strickland.
Fortunately fur us, our eistoricel students, those
who are the most qualified by their intellectual acquire-
ments to elucidate the national annals by their re-
searches, are incited by their ambition to prove them-
selves, in like manner, the most industrious. Miss
Strickland is amongst the number of these great li-
terary benefactors, conspicuous at once by her abi-
lity and her diligence. Encouraged to new labours
by the brilliant success of her first performance, she
has now undertaken to write a sequel to her " Lives
of the Queens of England," a sequel no less important
in its character. than biographies of the female sove-
reigns of the sister kingdom, " Lives of the Queens
of Scotland." Added to the memorials of which
royel personages, there will be comprised in the pre-
sent work the personal histories of such English
Princesses as were in any particular manner con-
nected with the royal succession of Great Britain.
Bearing in mind the promise, very explicitly given
by our authoress in her biography of Elizabeth
Tudor, to the effect that she would ultimately
publish a companion picture of the career of Mary
Stuart, her unfortunate contemporary, the reader of
the previous effusion can have felt no surprise
whatever at the appearance of the series here
commenced. Miss Strickland has in it ad-
ventured upon a scheme which must in the
end more than fulfil her original engagement. 'With-
out restricting herself to the narrative of one solitary,
reign, however memorable, she will in this remark-
able production dissipate the obscurities surrounding
the records of female royalty in Scotland, and remove
much of the ignorance and many of the false impres-
sions prevalent even among the educated classes of
her countrymen in reference to the remoter annals of
Caledonia. By a judicious arrangement, however,
the biographer will not extend her examination so far
back as to recount the vicissitudes of those almost
forgotten individuals who, by their exceeding dis-
tance in history from ourselves, are in a great mea-
sure removed from the reach of our sympathies. It
required the consummate and all but inspired genius
of Shakspere to create a soul under the ribs of death,
so as to excite our interest in behalf of that almost
fabulous monster the bloodstained usuper of the crown
of Duncan. Aware of the enormous difficulties in.
the way of those who would attempt to compete on
their own ground with the earlier chroniclers, our
authoress—guided at once by her intelligence and
her experience—has restricted herself within some-
what reasonable limits, chronologically speaking, dat-
ing no farther back than the 29th of November, 1489,
the day of the birth, in the palace at Westminster, of
Margaret the Princess Royal of England (daughter
of Henry VII. and his consort Elizabeth of York),
afterwards united in marriage to King James IV. of
Scotland. A more appropriate opening to, any such
series of royal biographies could scarcely by any
possibility have been selected. In Margaret became
concentrated, as it were, the whole of the illustrious
dynasties of Great Britain, of England and of Scot-
land, of the Anglo-Saxon kings and of the Norman
conqueror, of the Bruce and of the Stuart, of the
Tudor and of the Plantagenet. Through her union
with James IV. her decendants combined in
their veins the blood of all those lordly and puissant
races, blending them together, to use Miss Strick-
land's own expression, "in one rich stream." In
the history, therefore, of this august princess
the biographer finds, as it were, a brilliant
prelude to the romantic narrative of the
sufferings endured by her granddaughter the
beautiful but unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots.
Tne record opens with a subdued but arresting elo-
quence, like the sound of trumpets ushering in some
royal pageantry with a noise of mingled solemnity
and preparation. This may be discovered in the de-
scriptive passages immediately following the record of
the birth of the Princess Royal, and her baptism in
St. Margaret's, Westminster. The charm arising
out of this sense of coming marvels colours
more or less agreeably the account given of
her childhood and education, animated as that
account is by such incidents as her dancing at her
brother Arthur's bridal, and her own betrothal to James
IV. in the palace at Richmond. Before transforming
her from a Princess Royal of England, into a Queen-
Consort of Scotland, Miss Strickland takes occasion
to sketch very rapidly the previous life and character
of the husband of Margaret. We are consequently,
in a measure, prepared for the changes awaiting her
in her new position long before she has journeyed
northward with her recently widowed father, Henry
VII. From the moment of her separation from
Henry, at his mother's castle of Colleweston, we per-
ceive a visible alteration in the very manner of the bio-
graphy. By that time the authoress appears to have
groan simultaneously into a familiarity with her
subject and an enthusiasm in its celebration. Our
interest deepens as we proceed, arid as we proceed the
annals become more fraught with excitement. Mar-
garet has scarcely left the paternal court, when her
attention becomes occupied by the magnificence of her
progress towards the Scottish borders. Her grand
entrance into York proves only the prelude to her
triumphal recerien at Durham, at Newcastle, at
Aln wick, and at Berwick; throughout all which pro-
ceedings we are enabled, by the genius of Miss
Srickland, to form an intimate acquaintance with the
mode of life and personal deportment of the
western Lelia Rookh, travelling in state to the
scene ofhrr regal marriage. All that is wanted to
complete the fantastic resemblance is the discovery of
James IV. in the disguise of a minstrel, and the dis-
covery, also in her chamberlain, of a senile wag like
Fadladeen. As it is, we are not admitted by the poet
to a more complete knowledge of the domestic life of
the oriental princess than we are here by the biogra-
pher to that of the Princess Margaret. Now we are
present in imagination at her remarkable interview
with the Earl of Northumberland; now we are be-
side her when she brings down a fat buck with a shot
from her crossbow, or when, at her approach to the
pavilion at Latmasermuir, the bride queen is pre-
ceded by a brilliant retinue, some of her attendants
having silver bells, and others golden bells fastened to
their liveries, the which little campanes, saith the
Herald, "made a sweet chiming when they took
leaps and gambades at their good pleasure." Arrived
in the Pavilion of Recreation at Lamruermuir, the
English border chivalry defiles before Margaret, and
shortly afterwards, reaching Fast Castle, she sleeps
there, for the first night, in Scotland. The second
night she is welcomed by the nuns of Haddington, arid
on proceeding to Dalkeith Castle, is received there
in state by Lady Morton. The opening chapter
closes at this point in the midst of all the bustle which
may he supposed to have been prevalent when the
King's approach was unexpectedly announced. Right
pleasant are the descriptions which follow in the sub-
sequent pages of the same biography. Never has
Miss Strickland given a more sivid or more exqui-
site portraiture. The first meeting between James
IV. and Margaret is depicted in a manner to the very
last degree beautiful. We know only one similar in-
cident surpassing it in attractiveness—the first meet-
ing between Marie Louise and the Emperor Napoleon.
James IV. appears before us as the very keau ideal
of a handsome and chivalric Prince. his bride recog-
nises in him a right royal presence, notwithstanding
that he is simply garbed in the velvet jacket of a
huntsman. His hawking lure is thrown over his
shoulder, and his complexion is glowing at the mo-
ment from the manly exertion in which he had been
englgs.d. "He was the handsomest sovereign in Eu-
rope," says Agnes Stricle_and, " the black eyes and
heir of his elegant father James 111. being softened
in his resemblance to the blonde beauty of his Danish
mother." The portraiture accords with that which
Walter Scott had already pencilled of the same attrac-
tive personage.
" For hazsl was his eagle eye,
And auburn of the darkest dye
His short curled beard and hair;
Light was his footstep in the dance,
And firm his stirrup in the lists;
And oh, he had that merry glance
Which seldom lad)'s heart resists."
Such was the accomplishment of James IV. as an
equestrian, that Miss Strickland thinks his very noble
feat of horsemanship before his young Queen
at D illteith—when, according to the - Somer-
set Herald, " James of Scotland did leap on
his horse without putting his foot in stirrup; and the
said steed was a right fair courser; and torward the
King spurred, let follow who might "—mast have sug-
gssted the celebrated description of the mounting of
Harry, Prince of Wales, in Shakspere. Every minute
occurrence is introduced by the biographer in such a
manner, that with the mere perusal of it we are trans-
ported back four hundred years to the time of their
transaction—whether it be the mention of the Queen
weeping for her white palfreys burnt to death in the
midnight fire at Dalkeith, one of the steeds being
" much beloved by her ;" or the account of the king
playing on the lute and the clavichords. From the
vividness, and, as we can conceive, the verisimilitude
of the descriptions, it is evident to us that besides an
aptitu le for erudition, Miss Strickland is
gifted with a clear and objective imagination.
She realizes the genius of an age or of a country be-
fore adventuring upon the labours of their chronicler.
Her brief hut charming record of the courtship at
Newbattle between James and Margaret, forms an
appropriate and bewitching introduction to their en-
tranceinto the streets of Edinburgh, the bride seated
on the pillion of the bridegroom. After this gorgeous
entrance into the Scottish capital comes the marriage
in the Palace or Holy rood and the epithalemium. The
nuptials are described like all the rest, most char.
mingly, the biographer echoing as frequently as pos-
sible the voice of the quaint old Somerset Herald. As,
were it is said, fur example, of that august alliance—it
" was performed by the Archbishop of Glasgow and the
Archbishop of York in presence of all ; and they read
the bulls of their Iloly Pd her the P. pa. consenting
thereto ;" and " the trumpets then blew up for
joy, and the King bare-headed, bolding his Queen
by the right hand, passed through the said cora-

lice seems open to some grave objections. Whether
Mr. Bakewell's plan be that which ought to supersede it
o ay be questioned, in the still obviously imperfect state
of his invention; but any discovery which enlarges the
sphere of our resources in this department must be hailed
as a valuable acquisition; and the peculiar feature of
this invention, that by which it transmits not only the
ipsissinta verbs, but a correct copy, so that a man can
identify his own signature, certainly brings the whole
system one step nearer to that perfection at the attain-
ment of which man is always int-tfeetualty striving.

M. PRENTICE—I apprehend that in such a case as
the preeent it would, it the party did not dissent trom
the terms in the lever. The Learned Counsel also
moved on the ground of surprise at the trial, and of ex-
cessive datrvges.
The COURT promised to consult Mr. Justice Cressvvell
before they gave judgment.

MONET MARKET—The premium on gold at Paris
is .5 per mine, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce fur standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.27; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.24, it follows that gold is 0.18 per
cent, dearer in Paris than in London. By advicea frOm
Flimburgh the price of gold is 424 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.71; and the ex-
change at Hamburgh on Loudon at short being 13.64,
it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in Ham-
burgh than in London. The course of exchange at
New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 110/
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 1.17 per cet.t. in. favour of Eng-
land, and after making allowance for difference of
interest and charges of transport, the present rate
leaves a profit on the importation of gold from the
United States.
Modesty doubles the beauties which are seen, and
gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed. _Eliza
Cook's Journal.
The Colonelcv of the 15th Foot has become va-
cant by the death-
of General Sir Phineas Riall, which took
place in Paris.

LORD COCRRURN.—The health of this eminent

and learned judge has so far recovered that he is able to
resume his official duties. He was present on Monday at a
special sitting of the second division of the court, together
with Lords Cunninghame, Fullerton, Medwin, Mackenzie,
and Moncrieff, the Lord Justice Clerk presiding. in the case
of "Peter Ferrie v. beorge Ferrie," in which counsel were
heard during the whole day.—North British lfail.
LEDBURY. —SERIOUS Finn AT SNIG'S END.---On
Sunday night, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, a
serious fire broke out upon the farm of Mr. Knight, farmer,
of Upleadon, situate at Little Snig's End. Information was
promptly conveyed to Gloucester, and two fire-engines were
dispatched to the spot, but the fire was not got under until
a great amount of property was destroyed, namely, fifteen
ricks, two stables, and two cowsheds. The estimated value
of the property destroyed is 1,600/, and Mr. Knight is said
to be insured at but 40u1. Mr. Keily, deputy chief constable,
and Superintendent Seys were in attendance all night, and
rendered efficient assistance. It is conjectured that the fire
originated from some burning material having been dropped
by tramps, who had taken shelter in one of the barns.

SYDENIIAM.—A meeting was held at Sydenham, in
Kent, on Tuesday evening, at the Episcopal Chapel, the R:v.
Charles Marshall, M.A., the minister (and rector of St.
James's, Duke's-place), in the chair, to petition her Majesty,
and address the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the recent in-
trusion of the authority of the Bishop of Rome into these
realms. The Rev. Chairman addressed the meeting at some
length on the evils inflicted by Romanism on nations and
churches. The resolutions, which were moved seconded,
and supported by Messrs. Wright, S. Pegg, Nosworthy, C.
Gregory, Vinderhide, Harding, and Chaplin, were carried by
acclamation ; and at the close of the meeting the petition
and address were unanimously signed.
cRe
lel:9l;,raa.nnCddhcwaoer.l,beiesnlieNcvoeourheris Wilde,
gise.Bhonii.lina4an of
wepahlestwol:eohfafistribT of Wilde,
seen Lord Chanappointed
to the office of Secretary of Lunatics, vacant by the death
of Mr. Cartlidge. The Secretaryship in Lunacy is worth
about 800/. a-year, but its possessor holds his place at the
pleasure of the Chancellor, and is removanle by his suc-
cessor.—Morning Paper.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Sunday last a
covey of partridges alighted in the boats, and off the beach
at Newhaven. Ag od many were secured, but no clue has
been ascertained as to where they came from.—Edinburgh
Evening Post.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY IN ONE FAMILY.—
Mrs. Mary Owen died in the union workhouse, at Cocker-
mouth,seend an
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79th year; 55 grandchildren, 73 great grandchildren, and 4
great great grandchildren, making a total of 142, all living !
Her remains were interred at Brigham on Friday, and were
followed to their final home by four generations—children,
grandchildren,_ great grandchildren, and one great great
grandchild ! Her eldest grandchild has attained the goodly
age of 50 years, and her eldest great grandchild !47. The
deceased has a sister in her 93d year, residing at Great
Clifton.

BAIL CoUttf.—(faiS DAY.)
,Sittings in 13411C0, t,e'ore Mr. Justice PATTE,ON.)
MORRIS V. SUTTON.

Mr. Lusu rnovea L.A. a Jule to etiow cause why a writ
of prohibition should net issue in this case, directed to
the Judge of the County Court of Stafford, toil ten at
Henley, rt (poring him to stop all further proceedings in
the cause. rhe plan ta as hist", d on the 24th of Oc-
tober, and the cause of acute° a as tort, for neglecting to
repair a lence, win reby the plaintiff 's ht.rse sulks ed and
was kill, d, to the plain,iff'e damage of WI. The sum-
mons was served and the cause of action decided out of
the jurisdiction of the court, while the defendant neither
resided nor carried on business within the jurisdiction.
'lto defendant was an fxleneive cal owner and
the proprietor of collieries, and also a partner
in a large carrying establishment. one of whose
offices happened to be within the jurisdiction of the
Court. Now the 60th section of the County Courts Act
provided that the summons should issue in any district
in which the fietendant should dwell or carry on busi-
ness at the time the action was brought, and the ques-
tion which arose here was, whether the defendant, being
the preprte or of a colliery, and being a partner, having
a branch office within the jurisdiction of the Court,
brought him within the meaning of the Act of Parlia-
ment. Io the case of 11,-,lf v. Learmar." reported iu
the 19-11 volume of the Low Journal, Sage 10, it was
laid down that where a detesfmnt held the office of
depuiy•sealer of the Court of Chancery, and fol-
lowed the Lord Chancellor to Westteizister, Lincoln's
Inn, end the mouse of Parliament; he bad no fixed and
settledn place of business so as to enable bim to emir a
suggestion on the record to deprive the plaintiff of his
ci•sts. itesin, the ea,-e of ‘• Buckley v. Hair," 19. Law
Journal (Exchequer), page 151, that decision was IA( Wet ,
and it %us also been shat a cterk who went daily to a
Veer, of business in the city of London, could not be
considered as cart)iug on business in London within the
meaning of the Act. What the Act required was that
the defendant should be sued in tte jurisdiction where
he had some fixed residence. or place of business, and
where he was always to be found; otherwise it might be
said that the partners in Messrs. Pickford's firm could
be sued in any court, because they happened to have
offices,joursrteicceeipviAnTgT-hEosu„swess,
sinkeedliEf thebg motionlund.Mr. could not
have been made at chambers?
Mr. Lusu believed it could.
Mr. Justice PATrEsuN—There the summons for the
prohibition is issued, as a matter of course, without any
affidavit, or the judge knowing anything of the facts;
and upon an uffieavit of service, in the event of any one
appearing against it, the prohibition is issued.
Mr. Lush understood that it had ben so ruled, but.
tha' could not have beets the intention of the Legis-
lature.

The Bishnp of Winchester has appointed his son,
the Rev. George Sumner, to the living of Old Arlesford ; and
the Rev. Pigou to the living of New Arlesford ; both
vacant by the resignation of the Rer. the Earl of Guildford.
His Lordship has not as yet filled up the living of Medsted,
vacant from the same cause.

DETENTION OF THE SOUTH WALES MAILS.--
Numeruus are the complaints from all portions of thesoutiiern
part of the principality relative to t tie irregular rec-ipt I f
correspondence since the route of the mails has been altered
from Gloucester to Bristol, thence across the Old Passage.
In rough weather the crossing of the Severn is a service of
difficulty and delay, more especially in the winter time, when
nothit.g like certainty can be calculated on by the pre,ent
route. The fault dues not lie either with the Great Western
or South Wales line of railway; for in the event of a deten-
tion on the former line, the South Wales letters would be
sent on per a special engine, at the cost of the company, and
the managers on the South Wales Railway have done all in
their power to remedy the evil. The saving in expense
gained by the new arrangement does not amount to above a
tew hundreds, and in order to effect this the Post•office autho-
rities run the risk of losing a larger sum in the express trans-
mission of the bags.

THE DIAMOND STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—The
annual general meeting of the proprietors of the Gravesend
and Milton Diamond Stearn-packer. Company was held on
Monday at the New Falcon Inn, Gravesend, for the election
of directort and other annual business. H. Warren, Each
occupied the chair. The receipts for the past year, for pas_
sage-money, freightage, &c., amounted to 17,512/. 9s. Id.,
and the usual disbursements of the com pany to 16.0731 55. 9d. ;
in addition to which, however, there were extraordinary ex-
penses, in which the sum of 9421. 18s. Bd. fur a law-suit was
included. Notwithstanding this, however, the directors re-
commended that a dividend of 2i per cent. should be paid.
This was agreed to, and Mr Birchen was re-elected a paid
director at a salary of 2001. per annum. A vote of thanks
to the chairman closed the proceedings.
NEWMARKET.—On Saturday last AS a man by the
the name of James Betts, in company with his wife, was
leaving thelair to return to Snailwell, about seven o'clock
in the evening, they had not proceeded further than the
Crown Inn, High-street, Newmarket, when some unknown
hand dealt e man a blow, and immediately disappeared ;
the man Betts was taken to Mr. Fyson's surgery, but died
in a few minutes. Betts is 24 years of age, and has left a
wife and two children. No one is suspected of the offence,
and all is mystery.—lpswich express.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN 1 ENTUCKY.7--111 Fleming
county, Kentucky, William Ringo, bad an altercation wit is
Mr. —, who married his sister, whom he killed on the
spot by a single shot from a revolver. Ringo's mother ran
up to expostulate, when the inhuman monster fired two shots
into her body, from which she died next day. tiis sister,
the wife of the murdered man, then ran up, when the fiend
shot her through the thigh. She is likely to recover. He
then made off, but was pursued by the neighbours, who
f and him at the house of another neighbour. On seeing
the company advancing, be entered the house. He was sum-
moned to come out and surrender, but he refused, and while
attempting to draw a pistol was shut through the abdomen
by one of the party. He then shot at another of the party,
wounding him slightly in the shoulder, who thereupon fired
back, killing the monster instantly. The parties surrendered
themselves to the law authorities, were examined, and ac-
quitted.—Maysville Eagle.
EIGHTY PIGS DROWNED.—An accident of a serious
nature occurred at Invergordon last evening to one of the
boats engaged in shipping stock on board the Duke of
Sutherland steamer. A boat with upwards of 100 pigs left
the pier, the sea running very high at the time, and after
laving arrived alongside the steamer, seven or eight of the
pigs were shipped, when a heavy tea swamped the boat, and
washed out all the remaining pigs, upwai ds of 80 of which
were drowned. The crew of the boat had a narrow escape
and but for the active and prompt assistance of the men on
board the steamer, might also have met with a watery
grave, as the boat capsized shortly after it filled.—Aberdeen
Herald.

Mr. Jastice PATTESON—Teke a rule.
Rule nisi accordingly.
IN RE COWCIL.
Mr. 11. ITILL rcovsd for u rule nisi calling upon the
"'ighees of this itur.krupt, who is a prisoner in Yo, k
Cabtl,, to show cause why the writ of ca. bB. upon which
he via:, arrested should not be set aside, and the prisoner
discha,geo out of custody. The "Aisolier's ease was ad-
judicated in the district Court a 13atkruptcy, and the
Commissioner of the court having rt fused his certificate,
he was tarrsted at tt,e suit of his assignees, who bad ob-
tain. d the certificate of debt Foescribtd by the Bank-
rup cy Cons,lidation Act, which has all the force of a
judgment, and entitles the officer of this court to Issue a
ea pig,. ad selaft.eiendum. The del, et complained of in
this case rela.ed to the adjud.cation of the Commissioner
at the ceritticate irvetirig. The Act or Parlia-
ment in the 256th section gave the Commissioner
power tO refuse the bankrupt his certificate, on hie being

The young not only appear to be, but really are,
most beautiful in the presence of those they love. Eliza
Cook's Journal.

- - -
Patresausar.—We observe from the pub'ished
financial statement of the guardians of the Taunton Union,
made up to September last, that the cost of the maintenanec
of the in-door paupers of the Union is 36'.4. I Bs. 4d. leas than
in the corresponding halt.year of 1849, and that the support
of out-door paupers has also diminished 3051. 7s. bid. within
the same period.—Somerset County Gazette.

THE SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1850

pank to the high altar." Of the much
talked•of poem of " The Thistle and the Rose," writ-
ten in celebratio❑ of the nuptials by Dunbar, we
cannot say much from the specimen given by Miss
S'rickland. Better immessureably is the song per-
formed before James and Margaret as an epithalamium
on the day of their marriage, both the words and
music of which are happily still extant, affording us,
as the authoress justly observes, "great curiosities, as
testimonials of the state of literature and the arts at
the era of 1503." Here are the verses, to our think-
ing, in some parts exquisite in spite of their fantastic
and antique quintness :
" 0 fair, fairest of every fair,
Princess most pleasant and preclaro,
The loveliest that on-live there been,
Welcome in Scotland to be Queen!
" Young tender plant of pulchritude
Descended if imperial blood,
Fresh fragrant flower ot fairhood sheen
Welcome in Scotland to be Queen!
" Sweet lovely imp of beauty clear,
Moat mighty monarch's daughter dear,
Born ot x princess most serene,
Welcome in Scotland to be Queen!
" Welcome the rose both red and white,
IT'ecome theflower of our delight,
Our sprite rejoicing from the spleen,
Welcome in Scotland to be Queen .0'

For this sweet flower of poetry, blossomed three hun-
dred and forty-seven years ago, we are grateful to the
research of the biographer. Shaking the dust of an•
tiquity out of it, she has found it still fragrant and
blooming. It has about it somewhat of the air of Sir
John Suckling. The reduplication i❑ the first verse
is charming, and so also the diction in the two first
lines of the second. How delicious the alliteration in

' the line we have italicised in the third, and
the dainty epithets with which the last is
brought to a conclusion ! But enough of the
marriage and its accompaniments. Misfortunes soon
rise up to chequer the happiness of Margaret. In
depicting these misfortunes her historian betrays
cote•ummate ability. She tells us how death deals
his blows plentifully around the otherwise fortunate
wife of James IV. of Scotland, striking down in
succession her brother Arthur Prince of Wales, her
father Henry VII., her grandmother, her own first
born sou and her eldest daughter, and afterwards
another son, whose premature demise was however
heppily followed on the 11th of April, 1512, by the
birch of a third son, who survived to reign in the end
by the title of King James V. Besides the miseries
arising out of these calamities came the ultimate
wretchedness caused in the mind of Margaret by the
war between her husband and her brother, between
James IV. and Henry VIII., between England
and Scotland. Even this sorrow, however, became
ultimately of no account in the mind of the luckless
Queen, when she found herself widowed by the death
of her heroic spouse on the fatal field of Flodden. The •
rest of this remarkable and enthralling biography par-
takes of a more decidedly political character, although
it still continues to be adorned with private anecdotes
and other domestic memorabilia. The difficulties en-
couoterd by Margaret as Queen Regent of Scotland,
her visit to Henry VIII., her intercourse with Car-
dinal Wolsey, her reception by Katharine of Arragon,
her second marriage with the Earl of Angus, her de-
position from power in favour of the Regent, John
Duke of Albany, her quarrels now with Angus, now
with Albany, her illegal divorce, and her ultimate
dissolution—are all recounted by Miss Strickland in
a manner worthy of the biographer of Elizabeth.
Equally admirable in their way also are the lives of
her two successors, the first and second wife of ber
son, James V.—Magdalene of France and Mary of
Lorraine. Our authoress has never been more suc-

cessful than in the contrasting of their characters.
In every chapter of the present volume she has pre-
pared the way most brilliantly and effectively for what
will be the principdl feature in this series of royal
biographies—the memorial of Mary, the rival of Eliza-
beth. As a fascinating effusion of eloquence and eru-
dition we welcome the volume before us cordially,
but more cordially still as the commencement of a
work calculated largely to enrich our historic lite-
rature.