The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-21 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

POZMIGN.

On Wednesday the Diplomatic Corps waited upon the
King of the French to congratulate his Majesty, and the
Royal family, on the marriage of the Duke d'Aumale.
On the same day the Arab chiefs were presented to the
King by Marshal Soult.
Night robberies still continue frequent in Paris and the
suburbs. A number of suspicious characters were ar-
rested on Sunday night and Monday, in the neighbour-
ing of Montmartre, the Barriere des Martyrs, and the
Ualles. Nearly 40 persons, who had formed part of the
bands of robbers that have been lately broken up, or
who were sought for by the police for various offences,
were taken into custody. Five of them belonged to
Fourrier's band, and a number of others were con-
demned, by default, in the trial of Courtaut and Leudet
(the Faubourg St. Antoine band).
The different military corps are rivalling each other
in charity, The Municipal Guard has now followed the
good example of the Line, and ordered that 210 rations
of soup and meat be given out daily to the poor at each
of its barracks, on the production of a ticket from the
Mayor of the arrondissement.
Last week the officers of justice proceeded from Caen
to Sallenelles, to effect the exhumation of the body of a
female, named Alexandre, the wife of an ex-mayor of
that commune. ller death had taken place fifteen months
before, and suspicions have arisen that her husband had
poisoned her. Ile was arrested, and, after being inter-
rogated, was lodged in the gaol of Caen.
The Royal and Central Society of Agriculture on
Wednesday held its final sitting for the year. The chief
subject brought before the members ;was :the epidemic
amongst horned cattle, now raging inithe north of Ger-
many. The epizootic distemper, several of the gentle-
men present declared, differed altogether from the
malady which has fur a length of time been perceived
in some departments of the east of France ,• the former
being a sort of contagious typhus, whilst the latter is a
contagious peripneumonia. The Society appointed a
commission to inquire into the precise character of the
French malady just alluded to, and to report thereon.
The late severe weather had the effect of forcing the
wolves in several parts of France to leave their lurking-
places, and come nearer than usual to human haibitations
in search of food. Close to Marseilles, two persons who
lived at La Plaine found their passage barred by an
enormous wolf. They at once fled towards the Bou evard
Chave, and escaped. The animal remained all night in
the neighbourhood, prowling about a stable of cows and
goats, but without being able to commit any depreda-
tion. In the wood of Montpincon (Calvados) Marshal
de Grouchy's gamekeeper killed not less than three
wolves in two days.
The Memorial of Pau mentions a shock of an earth-
quake which was felt there on the morning of Wednesday
last, which extended to the Val!6e d'Ossau and Oleran.
It was about a quarter before six, and lasted about three
seconds, being preceded by a low rumbling noise.
A letter from St. Petersburgh, of Dec. 4, states that
the Emperor having ordered the Minister of the Interior
to urge on the works of the railroad between that city
and Moscow, already commenced ou the St. Petersburgh
side, a considerable number of additional workmen have
been put on, and measures taken tor the commencement
of the works at the Moscow end. It is even said that
the works are to be pursued by torchlight. In all pro-
bability the part of this line, between St. Petersburgh
and Novogorod (180 verstes) will be completed about
the beginning of next autumn.
2.111.11 LT AMU POLIC3II.

The AssizesForthe county of Lincoln have com-
menced before Mr. Justice Patteson. In the calendar
there are the names of 17 prisoners, of whom two are
charged with murder, one for arson, one for highway
robbery, two for concealment of birth, two for rape, one
for bigamy, two for being found armed with intent to
destroy game, the remainder being the usual run of petty
larcenies.
At the Central Criminal Court, Benjamin Ewen,
butler, convicted of feloniously stealing a silver tea-pot,
value 61., the property of the Duke of Richmond, was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard

labour.
In the New Court three men named Sanders, Sanford,
and Priestly, convicted of stealing 140 lbs. of quicksilver,
were each sentenced to seven years' transportation.
A man named Robinson, who was indicted with them,
was acquitted.
Ebenezer Paren Kingston, the prosecutor of Dr. Todd,
the Professor of Physiology at King's College, was yes-
terday remanded from Bow-street, on a charge of steal-
ing a coat and other articles, the property of one of the
students at the College.
Mr. Stapleton, the music publisher, was fined 5/. at
Marlborough-street, for having neglected to send a copy
of a piece of music to the British Museum within one
month of its publication, as required by the Copyright
Act.

At Greenwich, Absolom Davis, the master of the Be-
nevolent School Institution, of Deptford, appeared before
the sitting Magistrate, charged by Mr. James Smith,
builder, of New King-street, Deptford, with having as-
saulted in a most -violent manner his son Charles Smith,
aged seven years. The poor lad is a scholar in the in-
stitution, and the defendant had chastised him in the most
brutal manner with a thick rope. His body was covered
with bruises. Mr. Grove said he had never heard of a
more disgraceful proceeding daring the time he had a
seat upon the bench. It was highly discreditable to the
defendant, and he considered him totally unfit for the
situation he held. As the School Committee met that
evening, he should for the present defer judgment. The
Magistrate then ordered the case to stand over until
Friday next, the 27th inst., on which day he should be
prepared to deal with the case.
40011111T—PAS8XONAL211111.
It is now positively stated that the accouchement of her
Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz will take place at Cambridge House.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have arrived at
Drayton Manor, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel,
from Upton House, Warwickshire. Lady Fuller has
also arrived at Drayton Manor, from Marchmont House,
Berwickshire, where her Ladyship had been staying the
last month vivid' Sir H. 11, and Lady Campbell.
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh° have arrived at
Flours Castle, Roxbnrghshire, from Greenhill.
The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland is not expected to
return to Seamore-place, Curzon-street, until February
or March next.. The Earl and Countess of Mulgrave
have been on a visit to her Grace,
The Earl and Countess of Errol and the Ladies Agnes
and Alice Hay aze expected to leave Clarges-street, on
Tuesday next, on a visit to Lord and Lady Campden, at
Barbs.in Court, Rent, for the recess. The Noble Earl
and Countess are expected to return to town the first
week in January., to be present at the marriage of the
Rev. Lord Augustus Fitzclarence with Miss Gordon.
The recent reports of the Duke of Portland's illness
have been greatly exaggerated. His Grace has for some
weeks entirely recovered. The Duke is surrounded at
the present time by a numerous family circle at Wel-
beck Abbey, Notts,.
The Duke of Richmond and family are at Goodwood,
where a select party will assemble during the holidays,
The Hon. W. George Grey, Earl Grey's youngest
son, left England last week for Vienna, where he is ap-
pointed Attach 6 do the embassy of Sir Robert Gordon,
British Minister al that Court.

The Countess Cndogan, and the Ladies Augusta and
Honoria Cadogan, are staying on a visit to the Marquis
and Marchioness csf Anglesea, at Beaudesert. The lion.
Fred. Cadogan has joined the circle assembled at Earl
Clarendon's, at the Grove, Watford, Herts. The lion.
Capt. Geo. Cadogan has obtained leave of absence from
his regiment, the G renadier Guards, and proceeds on a
continental tour.
Lady Rolle, who has been on a tour of visits, is ex-
pected at the family' mansion, Bicton House, Devon, for
the Christmas holitl ay s.
Sir Henry Pottinger's visit to the city of Glasgow is
not expected to take place before next spring.

245 3 SCSSLANZIOUO.
The colossal stsitue of his late Majesty, William the
Fourth, in the City, is now completed, the upper part of
it having been fixcd on Friday morning. it is con-
siderod a gpod likeness.

tis said that Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, Bart..

will succeed Vice-Admiral Sir C. Owen, K.C.8., as
Commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.

Last evening the performances at Drury-lane Theatre
were appropriatod /o the benefit of Charing-cross Hos-
pital, in consequonoc of the unusual degree of suffering
and sickness caused by the inclemency of the weather.
The new opera, The Daughter of St. Mark, was the first
piece, and the house was well and fashionably attended.
In reference to the Act for the registry of seamen it is
important that it should be generally known by seamen
in the merchant service that, by this Act, every seaman
must be provided with a register ticket, in pursuance of
the directions contained in the Act of Parliament above

quoted, by the first of January next, and every master of
a vessel who, after that date, takes a man into his ser-
vice, without first calling on him to produce his ticket,
will be liable to a penalty of 10L for each offence. The
tickets are now being issued, and may be had on appli-
cation to the Registrar of Merchant Seamen's office in
London, and at the custom-houses of the different out-

ports, free of all charge.
The examination of candidates for the King's scho-
larship, by a board of professors, took place on Friday
at the Royal Academy of Music, but the result has not
been made public -, the successful candidates (one female
and two males) will receive gratuitous musical instruc-
tions for two years, at the institution, which is princi-
pally indebted for its present flourishing position to the
unwearied exertions of the Earl of Westmoreland.
A meeting of the general practitioners resident in the
borough of Finsbury was held a few days since, when it
was resolved that a public meeting should be called
early in the ensuing year, for the purpose of memo-
rialising the Legislature on the Bill recently introduced
by the Home Secretary, for the regulation of medical
practice.

DEATH OF A GLUTTON. ..Yesterday afternoon Mr.
Baker held an inquest at the Black Dog, Church-street,
Bethnal-green, on the body of William Blocus, aged fifty
years. It appeared by the evidence that deceased would
frequently totally abstain from food for a great number
of hours at a time, in order, as he expressed himself,
that he might have the thorough enjoyment of a hearty
meal. On Wednesday last ho had, in pursuance of his
plan, fasted the whole of the day, until between eleven
and twelve o'clock at night, when he partook of his
supper, which consisted of half a loaf of bread, fish, po-
tatoes, and a large quantity of plum pudding—after
eating which he retired to his room. On the following
morning he was found on the floor quite dead, having
the whole of his day clothes on, with the exception of his
boots. Verdict—Found dead.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

QUEEN'S. BENCH.—(TIIIS DAY.)
Lo, ti 1-.)elmz-in was occupied the whole morning in
trying, at the Guildhall, with a London special jury, an
indictment against Rowland and others fora conspiracy,
illegally to procure an award in a case of arbitration
against the prosecutor, Lyon Samuels. The case, which
will probably last to a late hour, is devoid entirely of
public interest.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY).
(Sittings at Nisi I'rius, at Guildhall, bef.re the LORD
CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.)
lIUTT AND OTHERS V. GILES.
_ .

This was an action of covenant brought by the trustees
of the Western Australian Company to recover from
the defendant the sum of 1,250/., being the amount of a
call of 1251. per share on ten shares held by him in that
Company. The action was undefended.
_ _

M. Martin and Mr. Peacock appeared for the plaintiffs.
The Western Australian Company was established in
the year 1841, with a view of promoting emigration to
the western ports of Australia, and of encouraging its
cultivation. 5001. was the ♦alue set upon each share,
one fourth of the amount to be paid at the time of pur-
chase. Calls of 1251. on each share taken was
subsequently made, and the object of the pre-
sent action was to recover the third call against
the only solvent shareholder out of six who had not
met the call. The defendant had put several pleas on
the record, one of which was, that lie had not had notice
of the call by circular in the manner required by the
Company's deed of settlement.
Evidence having been gone into on the part of the
plaintiffs, and his Lordship having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, with in-
terest, 1,343 L 15s.

CONSISTORY COURT.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Right Hon. Dr. LUSHINCTON.)
PHILIPS V. PHILIPS.

Dr. LUSHINGTON pronouneed judgment in this case.
This was a suit instituted by Mr. Philips, who is a bar-
rister and conveyancer, for a separation, a mensa et thoro,
from his wife, on the ground of an adulterous connexion
between her and Mr. Charles Ranny. The defence was,
that there was connivance on the part of Mr. Philips ;
and the state of the facts was as follows :—The parties
were married in 1825. They became acquainted
in Dieppe with Mr. and Mrs. Ranny, and in consequence
of circumstances which came to the knowledge of Mr.
Philips with regard to the degree of intimacy subsisting
between his wife and Mr. Ranny, he referred the matter
to two gentlemen to hare the circumstances investigated.
They seem to have diligently inquired into the facts, and
reported that they believed Mrs. Philips was inno-
cent of any real criminality, though they left it
to be inferred that she was guilty of consider-
able indiscretion. The parties were separated at this
time, and they recommended Mr. Philips if he so thought
fit, to take back his wife. It appeared from the evi-
dence that Mr. Philips resided at this time in Sloane-
street, and that his professional avocations used to call
him from home at nine o'clock, and that he used not to
return till six in the afternoon to dinner. Mrs. Ranny
was frequently on a visit at Mr. Philips's, and Mr.
Ranny used sometimes to sleep in Mr. Philips's house.
Mr. Philips took back his wife, and in the year 1840
it appeared that the intercourse between Mr. Ranny
and Mrs. Philips was renewed. Mrs. Philips used to
sleep from home frequently, and very often she used not
to return to her home till ten o'clock at night. She used
, at these times to sleep at Mr. Ranny's, and to remain at
his house, and though this was the case, it did not ap-
pear that Mr. Philips, who used to come home regu-
larly at six o'clock, made any inquiry as to the absence
of his wife. One occasion when she slept from home
two nights in succession, he asked her where she had
been, and upon her saying she had been at her sister's,
he appeared to be satisfied. Now it appeared that she had
not slept at her sister's house more than once during the
summer of 1841, and that they were not, in fact, on
good terms. Mr. Philips was also aware that Mr. Ranny
was in the neighbourhood, for he knew that he gave his
(Mr. Philips) boy a model of a ship. Subsequently Mrs.
Philips went to Dieppe, where she met Mr. Ranny; and
there was no doubt of the fact of the adultery being
committed there. When she returned the same kind
of intercourse between her and Mr. Ranny, which had
previously existed, was renewed, and then is was that
Mr. Philips moved in the matter. The parties finally
separated on the Bth of October, 1842, and the
present suit for separation was brought. The question
therefore was, whether Mr. Philips under those circum-
.

stances was entitled to a separation, and whether his

conduct did not exhibit such a degree of connivance as
to disentitle him to it ? The Learned Judge, after going
through the whole case in detail, said with the know-
.

ledge which Mr. Phillips had that his wife was absent
from his house by night and by day—that with the
knowledge that Mr. Ranny had been in the neighbour-
hood—that his boys had been at Mr. Ranny's, and after
having instituted previously an investigation into the
conduct of his wife, which he knew to be at least indis-
creet, he ought at once to have interposed in some way
or other. There was, therefore, a degree of culpable
negligence on his part, but the question which he had to
decide was, whether this culpable indifference, with a
previous knowledge of the great indiscretion of his wife,
and ao active steps taken by him to interpose but where
cohabitation continued, whether that was in the eye of
the law such a connivance as to bar a suit for separation
a mensa et thoro. The Learned Judge, after referring to
the authorities, none of which were applicable to the pre-
cise circumstances of the present case, but showed that
there must be consent and intentional negligence on the
part of the husband,went on to say, that though he could
not acquit Mr. Philips of the most supine inertness, when
his own honour, the happiness of his children, and the
peace and sacredness of his domestic hearth were con-
cerned—though he could not acquit him of the most
culpable and supine indifference—though the circum-
stances called, and most loudly called for, immediate
and active interposition, yet ho thought the facts,
and the law as he found it laid down, )us tilled
him in saying that this case must be brought
within the case of "Moreson and Moreson," and he
gladly availed himself of the shelter of that high autho-
rity' to give to Mr. Philips the relief he prayed for. In
pronouncing judgment in that case that high autho-
rity, Lord Stowell, says, " I feel I shall tolerate neglect
and inattention on the part of husbands, and that I shall
pronounce a decree which will not lead to the peace and
honour of families, nor the purity of wives." And
never would Lord Stowell, feeling and uttering
those sentiments, have followed them up with a
decree for separation, unless he felt himself bound
by the stringency of the law to adopt such a course.
If such were the consequences of the law, it was not even
for Lord Stowell, and much less for him, to deviate from
the decisions to which it led, on account of ally conse
quences. He therefore pronounced in favour of this se-
paratiou, but he Risked it to be most clearly understood
that the grounds of his judgment were, that there must
be a corrupt connivance, which he did not find in this
case • there must be a knowledge, or necessarily pre-
sumed knowledge, of adulterous intercourse or indecent
familiarity, and not finding those circumstances, he
thought he was entitled to give Air. Philips the remedy
for which he prayed.—Judgment accordingly.

UNION-HALL.--(THIS DAY.)
Edward Edwards was charged with being found on
the premises of a gentleman named Bright, at Brixton,
for an unlawful purpose, and Margaret Sheen, a young
woman servant in the family, was charged with admitting
the former prisoner into the house.
It appeared that the female prisoner was nurse for
Mr. Bright's family, and that she slept with an infant in
a room at the upper part of the house. Between three
and four o'clock this morning the complainant was
awakened by the crying of his infant, and, oa his wife
proceeding up stairs, it was found the child was in bed
alone, no appearance of the nurse having been there.
Mr. Bright immediately descended to the kitchen, and
on opening the door, his amazement may easily be
imagined on beholding the two prisoners lying hugged
in each others arms on a hearth-rug, before a blazing
kitchen fire, fast asleep. He did not awaken them, but
went for a policeman, and gave them both into custody.
On the way to the station-house the female prisoner
threw away a waistcoat belonging to her master, which
she said adhered to her shawl without her knowledge.
The other prisoner said that he was paying his addresses
to the nurse, and that having called to see her, sleep
overcame him, but he declared that he had no intention
of doing anything wrong or taking any property.
Mr. TRAILL said that he should remand the prisoners
until Monday, in order that further inquiry might be
made.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 21.—Wind easterly, fresh breezes and
cloudy.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Cuba, Degn, Matanzas
for Hamburgh.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind E., fresh breezes.—
Arrd. Neckin packet, Hofken, Surinam for Amsterdam ;
Maria, Ruyter, Trinidad for Bremen ; Janes, Dunn,
Halifax ; Symmetry, Brown, Quebec for Sunderland.
COWES, DEC. 20,—Arrd. Adolph, Schroder, Porto
Rico for Bremen ; Cybele, Edmonds, Havannah ; Bril-
liant, Russell, Honduras.
FOWET, DEC. 19.—S1d. Good Intent, New Orleans.
OFF THE WIGHT, • DEC. 17.—Der Bom, Dwayer,
Batavia.
STUDWALL ROADS, DEC. 18.—Arrd. Lady Gordon,
Schwer, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 20.—Wind E.S.E., moderate.—Arrd
Hottinguer, Bursley, New York. Sld. Lady Raffles
Sierra Leone ; Peruvian, Ichaboe ; Jupiter, Maracaibo;
Mersey, Apalachiola ; Chieftain, Charleston ; Rambler,
New York. The Rhoda, Matthews, from Messina, is
aground off the King's Pier.
HOLYHEAD, DEc. I9.—The Nicolas Sevin, from St.
Petersburgh to Liverpool, is ashore on the east side of
this bay, but expected off next tide. The Evelina, of
Boston, U.S., dismantled and abandoned, was fallen in
with, 22d ult., lat. 39, lon. 63, by the Nathaniel Hooper,
arrived here ; she appeared to be without damage or
leaky.
WExionD, DEC. 19.—Part of a vessel's side, about
15 feet long, oak, and apparently of recent wreck, with
iron fastenings, no trenails, was picked up a few days
since, in Ballyteague Bay.
HULL, DEC. 20.--The Yorkshireman, steamer, hence
to Yarmouth, got on the Holme Sand, yesterday, and
remains.
OFF TOREAY, DEC. 20.—Hendrick Hudson, Moore,
New York.
PLYMOUTH, Dxc. 20.—Wind E.N.E., strong.—
Arrd. Arab, Dulgarno, Port Phillip; Justina, Loader,
Caleutta, left St. Helena, on the 16th ult.; Jessie, Mal-
colm, Ceylon; Queen of the Ocean, Tilley, Quebec.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 20.--Wind E., strong gales, and
squally.—Arrd. Euphrosyne, Doyle, Saguenay, zailed
on the 15th ult.