The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—TheVictoria and Albertroyal
yacht,"Csptain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.11., will
sail early to-morrow morning for Plymouth, on her way to
Lisbon and Gibraltar, to make a trial of the time in
which she could, if required, convey the Court to the
latter place. Prince George of Cambridge arrived this
afternoon by railway, and embarked at the Sallyport
in the gig of Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, which con-
veyed his Royal Highness on board the royal yacht, for
passage to Gibraltar.
PLYMOUTH, Joss 24.—His Swedish Majesty's eon.
vette Diajaden, Captain Lilleybrooke, came in at twelve
o'clock yesterday after a passage of 17 days from Boston,
United States. Outside the breakwater she was boarded
by Mr. Walker, the Queen's harbour-master, who con-
ducted her to the merchant shipping anchorage 'ground,
where she honoured the British flag with a royal salute
of 21 guns; which was acknowledged with the same num-
ber from the saluting battery at Plymouth citadel. She
then saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir William Hall
Gage with 17 guns, which were returned by her Ma-
jesty's ship Impregnable, 104, Captain Sir T. Maitland,
i❑ Hamcaze. The Nejaden was in the Sound about 10
months since, and has in the meantime been to Pernam-
buco, Bahia, the West Indies, twice to Boston, &c. She
is bound to Gothenburgh, and calls here for orders
which are in the hands of Mr. W. F. Collier, Consul to
his Majesty King Oscar of Sweden.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Salamander sailed on
Saturday for Liverpool, to conduct the Bacchus to Pem-
broke.

Letters from the Mediterranean state that her Ma-
jesty's ship Caledonia will leave Malta on the 10th of
July for Gibraltar.
The Penguin packet-brig, 6, Lieutenant-Commander
Leslie, goes out"of harbour to-day.
The screw-steamer Nautilus, Captain Pearson, from
London, on Friday evening took in 60 tons of coal, and
on Saturday moining left for Gibraltar, Malta, and
Galatz.
Wind easterly, light.

ILLNESS OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.—
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England did not sit in
his Court yesterday, in consequence of a sudden attack of
illness. His Honour was expected yesterday morning as
usual, and the Court was opened at the customary hour of
ten o'clock, but about ,half-past ten o'clock a message was
brought that his Honour was so indisposed as to be unable to
attend. Shortly before the rising of the Court of Chancery
yesterday it was said that the physicians in attendance had
expressed it as their opinion that the illness of the Vice-
Chancellor was of a serious, if not of a dangerous, character.
His Honour sat as one of the Lords Commissioners in the
Court of Chancery on Saturday, and it was noticed that he
had an unusually uneasy and excited appearance during the
sitting.—. Advertiser.
None are so hard to please as those whom satiety
of pleasure makes weary of themselves; nor any so readily
provoked as those who have been always courted with an
emulation of civility.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

A fire broke out yesterday evening, at about
twenty minutes past nine o'clock, at the Sover Coffee-house,
110, Chancery-lane, in the vicinage of the Law Institution.
Fortunately trom the early period of the evening the engines
of the parish, the London, and the West of England were
early on the spot. All the inhabitants were quickly got out
of the house, and no persons were injured. The upper part
of the premises were totally destroyed, but the bottom of
the building was comparatively uninjured. According to
the account of the police on duty, it appeared that the fire
had been caused by a lodger in a state of intoxication having
ignited his bedclothes.
SHAM FIGHT oN
- N 1 , ':
no ore 1
garrisonc u -C
whole of the Royal Artillery
undress uniform at seven o'clock A.M. yesterday, and pro-
ceeded to the common, where the troops went through the
li
alls°ell--bleltdh in
e
manoeuvres of a sham fight, taking up certain positions in
their advance, and retreating when overpowered by a greater
force or superior tactics. The sham light was carried on
with ten rounds of blank cartridge from each of the guns of
the Royal Horse Artillery and field batteries, and
The ususix
t, roundsguani
front each musket of the
mounting, which takes
rbd.aa3tiftl.ya 1 jaotn st
en A.m. did not take
It is said ;hat the sham
preliminary exercise of the troops,
place yesterday until tptilraecee
fight yesterday
gwaasdadisplay at Woolwich on Friday next,
preparatory
It 's i certain, however that the
of distinguish P
in the pres!ntc•eaof-rtehrnesoniCzpaulese Ambassador
however, a
number
the 27th inst and to which the
room on Thursday, .>
was to be given at the Royal Artillery
mess- Ambassador and his suite were invited, is post-
ponedNePaaleB° , - band that day being the a n'
to Friday, the 'loth, ,
sarY of her Majesty's coronation would be very appropriately
kept with a grand military display at Woolwich.
NOVEL AEROSTATION.On Thursday evening last
a large concourse of persons was gathered around Cremorne-
gardens and the Lambeth Gasworks, in consequence of an
announcement that an inflated balloon, with a car attached,
was to be towed tip the river from Lambeth to Battersea. The
proprietors of Crernorne-gardens, finding that the charges of
the Lambeth Gas Company for inflating the balloon were
less than those usually paid, determined to have their bal-
loon inflated there and towed up to the Gardens. One of the
Citizen steamers, gaily decorated with tags and streamers,
and with a brass band on board, arrived at the Company's
wharf at 5 o'clock, and by means of strong ropes the huge
machine, with its car, containing four persons, was got on
board and secured to the bows of the vessel. The funnel
was down, and every precaution taken to prevent accidents.
On arriving at Vauxhall-bridge the balloon was allowed to
rise to a height of 60 or 70 feet, and, a rope being dropped
from the car to the other side of the bridge, it was hauled
over. A similar process was performed at Battersea. The
great difficulty to be encountered was the landing of the
balloon at Cremorne-gardens. As soon as the ropes on the
vessel were loosened the balloon commenced a rapid ascent,
which it required the efforts of about 20 men to check. On
appeared so likely to be immersed in the
being suddenly hauled down, the car, containing three gen-
tlemen and a lady,
river that a very hasty movement took place among its
occupants, who saved themselves from a disagreeable immer-
sion by throwing out a quantity of ballast. After a consi-
derable time the perverse tendencies of the machine were
conquered, and it was borne in triumph to the centre of the
gardens, amidst the cheers of an immense crowd and the dis-
charge, of a quantity of unniatan artillery..

FRANCE.
The llcmiteur says—" The Minister of Commerce
has submitted to the examination of the Council of

State a Bill for modifying the tariffs of sugar and
coffee. The Bill, which has been examined by the
Council-General of Agriculture, Manufactures, and
Commerce, enacted that the new legislation
should come into effect for the Ist July. It is,
however, no longer permitted to hope that
sukila can be the case. After the examination of the

Council of State the Bill will have to be submitted
to the Legislative Assembly, where it will have to
be read three times, which will require a long delay.
It is even difficult to foresee the period at which the
new Bill will be adopted, but the Government will do
all that depends on it to hasten the vote, and, if De
pessary, to carry it into execution."

LORIOUS RECEPTION OF LORD PALMERS-
TON BY THE PEOPLE.
Lord Palmerston came down to the House in his car-
riage shortly before five o'clock yesterday evening. An
immense crowd of well-dressed persons was assembled
around the Members' entrance to meet the Noble Lord,
and the ENGLISH MINISTER was, on his appear-
ance, greeted by the hearty English cheers of
those assembled, and who thus testified their
approval of his spirited English policy. The
English people will cot be Russian serfs, whatever Eng-
lish Tory aristocrats may choose to be. The Noble
Lord had evidently not expected such a reception, but
it was equally evident that he was well pleased with this
spontaneous burst of hearty English feeling in support
of him who is par excellence the ENGLISH PATRIOT
MINISTER.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, June 24.

(Sittings in Banco, before Justices MIDLE, CRESSWELL,
and TALFOURD.)
BLI''TY v. MILLELTO—CONSTRUCTION OF CONTRACT.
Mr. JusticeMauLE delivered the judgment of the
Court in this case. The action was to recover 501. for breach
of an agreement whereby the defendant had engaged for
himself and wife to perform for two months as equestrians,
on the stage or in the ring, at Astley's Amphitheatre or
elsewhere, for the plaintiff, at a salary of 51. per week,
subject to a penalty of 501. upon breach of the agree-
ment. Before the e)Fpiration of the engagement the
plaintiff, who had an equestrian establishment at Peebles,
in Scotland, required the defendant and his wife to pro..
coed to that place and perform there, which they refused
to do, and upon their suing the plaintiff in a county
court fur their salary, he commenced the present action
against them. The defendant demurred to the declara-
tion on several technical grounds, which the judgment
disposed of in detail, and the Court being of opinion
that, though irregular in some respects, the declaration
was good in substance, gave judgment for the
(Sittings at Nisi Priu3 before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
and a Common Jury.)
LONCMORE V. HUSSEY.
The Court was occupied this morning with this case,
which was an action for the recovery of 481. 17s. Bd., due
partly as the balance of a bill and partly for goods de-
livred. The de!ence was that the date of the bill had
been altered by the plaintiff between the time of its
being drawn and of its becoming due; and, as regarded
the goods, tlaat.by the arrangement of credit entered
into between the. parties the payment was not yet due.
The evidence was of great length, and very contradictory
—one witness.. t4.wearing that an erasure apparent in
the bill had been made before the bill was drawn,
.and another witness that it was done three months
afterwards.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the
full amount.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH.

-'TEE ALLEGED MURDER AND ROBBERY AT CLAP-
EA-N.—After the night charges had been disposed of,
Mr. Maddle, the owner of the house in the Wandsworth-
road, which so recently occupied the attention of the
public as the scene of an alleged murder and robbery,
waited upon Mr. Elliot, to answer the complaint of a
female, who stated herself to be the only daughter of
the. alleged murdered housekeeper, for detaining the
clothes and other property belonging to the unfortunate
deceased.

On Tuesday last a young woman attended before Mr.
Elliot, in company' with an elderly female, who alleged
that after the funeral of Mr. Maddle's housekeeper, ap-
plication was made to him by them for the restoration
of the clothes of deceased, which Mr. Meddle, however,
refused to give up.. In consequence of such refusal on
his. part, the magistrate sent an officer with them, to
see him on the subject. He still persisted in retaining
them, and intimated his intention of attending at this
court yesterday, to answer the complaint.
As soon as the case was called on, Mr. Maddle rose
and stated, that he was sorry that the unfortunate affair
which had occurred in his house should be again brought
before the public. Ile attended that day to show cause
,why, he did not give up his deceased housekeeper's
clothes and other property to a young woman calling
herself her daughter. His reason would be quite suf-
ficient to satisfy his Worship why he detained the pro-
perty. The young woman in question was an illegiti-
mate child, and had no right whatever to the property,
especially when there was a son who migh adminster
to the property. He had received advice from the
solicitor to the Treasury on that point, and was perfectly
right in detaining the clothes until ho had a proper
authority.
Mr. ELLIOT considered that he had no particular
grounds for keeping the property, and it could not mat-
ter mach to him to whom he gave them up.
Mr. Maddle—But I have written to the son, who is
in the country, and he says all the funeral expenses will
tali on him. Therefore, I think lam Lot bound to give
up the things to the female. Not only that, they have
behaved ill to me or I should have been more liberal.
Mr. ELLI ,T—After whet I have heard respecting the
daughter'. illegitimacy, I cannot interfere in the matter.
Mr. Maddle—Then what am I to do, your Worship?
If something is not done to protect ma I shall be con-
stantly troubled. I am quite willing to give them up
if your Worship will give me a written acknowledgment.
Mr, ELtror —I have nothing whatever to do with the
property. The only legal claimant is the party who ad-
ministers to the effects, and has such has not been
done, I think you might safely deliver them to the
elanghter.
Ur. Maddle—l have been twice to the Treasury on
the: subject, and have been advised to keep the pro-
perty until it has been administered to. The brother
declines to do an, as he would be liable to her debts. But
I can assure your Worship that she owes nothing. It
was a painful thing to have my name in the papers, and
to be talked about by all the world, as if I had not used
precaution. I warned the deceased oftentimes against
admitting people into my house, and had she taken my
advice the unfortunate occurrence would not have
taken place. Some of the people bad stated I gene
rally kept thousands in the house. Zhat would be
foolish.
Mr. ELLIOT —I have nothing whatever to do with the
case,, neither can I interfere in any way, therefore I
must beg you to drop the subject.
Mr. Meddle then left the court, asserting that he
should still retain the property of his deceased house-
keeper until he had a proper certificate drawn up in a
legal manner.
►.

DUKE OF WELLING CON'S BREECHES.
Avery droll story has been in circulation in private
circles: for some days past which is, we think, too
good to be lost to the "general public," particularly
as it numbers among its drantatis persona, no less per-
sonages than the Commander-in-Chiet; a Bishop, and
an accomplished authoress.
Our story sets, out, in politeness, as it ought to do,
with the lady.
• It is only necessary to mention the name of Mrs.
.Loudosi.to recall to the reader's memory the clever
writings of that lady on horticulture. Well, Mrs.
Lbudon was lately in the neighbourhood of Strath-
fieldsaye, and being always anxious to visit spots re•
markahle for fine specimens of the vegetable world,
and hearing that she was likely to gratify her taste at
the gardens of the Duke of 'Wellington, she wrote to his
Grace, conveying her- special desire to see some.
it beeches" for which the spot is celebrated. The
letter was duly delivered, and, opening it with his
usual promptitude, the octogenarian Duke raised his
,glayee?, and, glancing at the contents, his eye caught
ibnatily at the signature of the note << c.
J, 14011d011,"
'and he at.once came to the conclusion that it came
from Charles James Bishop of London, more
cul4ilY as the band-writing of the note bore a- close
resemblance to that of the Eight Reverend Prelate.
But,- whilst there was nothing very remarkable in the
facter4tote from the Bishop, the object of it did
" most especial wonder;" for that
• -lil
sanad akap glance which had converted an amiable
lady; into A learned Bishop, also, with a success_ which
the. very spirit of mischief, Puck, himself could
not -duive - surpassed, metamorphosed the majestic
beeches bf.Strathfieldsaye into the nether garments
of their noble owner—in fact, the note ran thus, that
"C, J. London" (the ordinary laconic modein.which
Charles James Bishop of London sums up his 'honours
and dignities) was desirous of viewing the Duke of
'Wellington's breeches !
How the
,Dake looked, as he eyed the note, it is
not our province to picture ! but, with his usual dis-
patch—and thinking, probably, that the request ap-
plied to the Waterloo inexpressibles, that they might
be wanted for artistic purposes—he directed his valet
to look out the article and dispatch it with all polite
forms to the Bishop

In due course the packet arrived at the Bishop's,
and the amazement with which tile Prelate re-
ceived, with "Field-Marshal the Duke of Wel-
lington's compliments," his " Waterloo breeches,"
may be conceived. But the ludicrous was soon
changed into the painful as the idea flashed through
the Bishop's mind that all was not " quite right"
with the great veteran ; and, to solve this painful
• doubt, off his Lordship went to the Premier's to make
Lord John a party to the extraordinary present he
had just receivad.
Now, it so happened that, after dispatching the
pared as •above-related, the Duke himself was
gib,* similar thought as to the mental state
VOA Rev. Writer and he, too, thought it
:Ali,:cisitor—t.ttioligh- the Bishop did not come under
01,1
,the )Horse quard;s--tO
,;ekot.t io
the *mini probable state of:thiud'o(one of Oae

heads of the Church militant. His Grace arrived
most a propos. The Bishop was closeted with the
Premier. Lord John was pondering over the mys-
tery of the breeches, when up rode the noble owner
of them, cool and collected as his statue
at Hyde Park-corner. How he and the Bishop
looked at each other is, again, one of those matters
in which the imagination or the pencil must come to
the duty of the pen—we commend the subject to
Punch. But the climax of the scene was, that
the letter—the source from whence all this mis-
chief rose—was produced, examined, conned over,
and at last, rightly interpreted—C. J. Loudon
was substituted for the Bishop of London—the
beeches of Strathfieldsaye for the Duke's breeches;
and, to sum up all, Mrs. Loudon received by return
of post a polite compliance with her request, and went
and accomplished the objects of her wish without
being at all aware of the perplexities in which her
note had involved a Duke, a Bishop, and a Prime
Minister.

We have heard the above facts related in different
quarters as authentic. If the circumstances are not
quite correct, we must say with the Italians in Bimilar
cases, "Se non trovo, e ben trovato."

Gracious Majesty and Prince Albert on the birth of a
Prince, from the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, of
the borough of Southampton.
A deputation upon the subject of Sunday trading,
consisting of Mr. Churchwarden Taylor, of Lambeth,
Mr. H. T. Adamson, of Marylebone, Mr. Thomas
Beecher, of St. Clement's, Mr. Henry Pritchard, of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, and Mr. James Hayman, of Lam-
beth, had an interview with Sir George Grey on Satur-
day at the Home-office.
. .

Mr. Lempriere bad an interview with Earl Grey yes•
terday at the Colonial-office.
A deputation of coroners, comprising Mr. Wakley,
M P. (Middlesex), Mr. Bremridge, M.P. (Devonshire),
Mr. Payne (London), Mr. Baker (Middlesex), Mr. Lewis
(Essex), Mr. Badger (Yorkshire), Mr. Higgs (Duchy of
Lancaster), Mr. Ashford (Somersetshire), Mr. Phillips
(Staffordshire), Mr. R. Clarke (Berkshire), and Mr.
Codd (Essex), had an interview with Sir George Grey
on Saturday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday, and heard motions and petitions. Mr. Baron
Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and
the Judge of the Admiralty Court were the Llrds pre-
sent. Sir E. Ryan sitting as a Privy Councillor.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Among the numerous models and machinery for agri-
cultural and horticultural purposes we observed a variety
of tiles for a better mode of growing strawberries.
When two of the tiles are placed together a circular
hole is left in the centre for the plant to pass through;
the flat part of the tile supports the fruit and leaves
and retains the heat many hours after the sun has set,
consequently the fruit ripens very much sooner than
when grown in the ordinary manner. It also keeps the
fruit perfectly dry and free from dirt. Some straw-
berries were exhibited by the inventor, Mr. Roberts, of
North Brixton, at the late show of fruit at the Botanical
Society, and were the only specimens of out-door growth
shown, which shows the advantage of this plan of cul-
tivation over the old.