The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

of the assaults committed, that justification
was held to apply to the single instance of assault proved:
The prosecutcr was at liberty to put any number of
counts he pleased on the indictment, but if he had put
one only, be must choose that act on which he will rely
and prove that. He said his Learned Friend would
argue that the charge in this case was a joint charge,
but it was joint and several.
Mr. PAYNE said the charge was a joint one, and the
evidence put. in was not intended to prove the act of as-
sault., but only an incident leading to it.
Mr. BALL INTINE, in reply, said an assault was an
assault by whatever name it might be called.
Mr. HUDDLESToNE, for the mate, said if his Lordship
was prepared to admit the charge was a joint charge,
then he must be prepared to follow his principle out, for
if the charge were a joint charge, one being acquitted,
both must be acquitted.
The Learned COMMISSIONER retired to consult with
the Learned Recorder. On returning into Court, he in-
timated that the opinion expressed by the Learned Re-
corder coincided with his own, and that no further evi-
dence could be brought against either of the accused.
The jury was then directed to find Captain Gordon
Not Guilty.
The testimony of the boy Scott was continued—He
said that the mate came up w ith the intention of flogging
him. When he saw thiS he jumped off the yardarm, and
attempted to lay hold of the backstays, but, missing
them, fell into the slater. He was a quarter of an hour in
the water.

Mr. HUDDLESTONE objected to evidence of anything
more that might have happened ; enough had been
brought forward to satisfy the court.
The objection was allowed, and Mr. Huddlestene
proceeded to cross-examine the boy Scott. He
said it was his watch that morning. he watch
began at 7 bells, that is half an hour before eight o'clock.
When he came up he found all the vi atch en
deck. He did not know what time it was
then. (The captain here was observed by a
juryman making use of means to intimidate the boy
in giving his evidence, and was ordered out of Court.)
Scott said there were four men and two boys in the
watch ;he was one of the boys. All the sails were set
except the flying-jib and the Spence. At that time he
(witness) was dt zing in bed, when the mate came
down and gave him two or three blows on the back
with a rope's end, He then ran up to the deck. He
was ordered up to tar the ropes with nothing on but a
blue woollen shirt. He asked the mate to allow him to
put on some clothes, a pair of trousers at least ; but the
mate refused this. He refused to tar the ropes in this
condition, and was struck by the mate while on the
yard-arm, where he jumped from to catch the stays, but
tell into the water.
William Morris was a seaman on board the Nathesis,
and rem(mbered Scott having been in the water. He
saw the mate go down below with a rope is his hand.
On the deck he saw the mate give the boy two or three
blows ; the boy then had no trousers on. When aloft
he saw the mate in chase of the boy. The boy ran along
the yard-arm, where the mate struck him twice or thrice.
The boy then jumped off the fore lee yard-arm to catch
the back-stays, but he missed them and fell into the
water. The boy might have been a quarter of an hour
in the water. He could swim a little. The ship was put
about, and the boy was picked up. He, witness, was
then at the wheel.

Harris, another seamen, was called into the witness-
box, but proved nothing.
The Counsel for the mate then addressed the jury.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that an assault had
been admitted, the jury were to consider whether that
assault had been justified, and if they should find so they
were to acquit the prisoner.
The jury, after consulting, found the mate Not
Guilty.

The mate is, however, still in custody.
The case will be tried on a new indictment on Thurs.
day next.

THE COMING CHRISTMAS.
Coming events cast their shadows•before. You will
say, perhaps, that the sun, like other great folks, rarely
conics to town at this time of the year, and his absence
makes us all as shadowless as Peter Seblemit ; but the
coming event of Christmas casts .a most portentous
shadow before, at Barry's temple of nick-narks at the
Egyptian-hall, where the pleasantest half-hour possible
may be passed in inspecting all his recent importations
from Paris. In going in, mind that you do not, inads
vertently, that which Louis XI. could not accomplish,
—knock down Charles the Bold ; look at Jean Sans
Peur, and him of Santillane, and other bronze
statuettes, so admirably executed that you cannot
suppress a secret desire that some one may
send one or two of them as Christmas cadeaux ;
and those charming little cassettes, half-desk half-dress-
ing-case, in which, like Pandora's box, something good
is always to be found at the bottom ; and then those
millions of pails reins, all so ornamented that it is abso-
lutely necessary that the airy nothings should have a
local habitation on your drawing-room table ; and those
embossed pocket-books, and calendriers of all sorts,
shapes, and hound sizes, in either velvet or morocco, for
ladies of business habits, for since Lady Aylesbury has
set the fashion, hundreds of ladies are now given to
" raillery." But, " basta cosi," let us cross Piccadilly, and
stroll up Bond-street ; what a blaze of triumph, as the
poet Bunn would say, attracts the eye in Doudney's
shop; what grotcsque waistcoats, what excruciating coats,
what varied devices to make the human fcrzn divine
appear symmetrical. What an odd idea it was
for a tailor to settle in the wilhome Alexandrian
Museum. L• ok in, and you will see Doudney over-
Is Wined with business, and like Shakspeare's smith,
with shears and measures in his hand. What admirable
workmanship is displayed in those registered cloak
lying an the counter, and which the Coma Circular
lately announced as having had the honour of gaining
her Majesty's approbation. Beware, oye dress and
mantua-rnakers, Doudney is galling your kibe, for he
has already been sporting on your domains, and his
well-lined carriage-cloak is already on the shoulders of
many a dame who formerly shivered under your fairy-
likes , fab,ics. And then there is another of these
schucider, named Becker, in the Rue Neuve des Petits
Champs, 15, who is also making energetic efforts
to eclipse his rivals in the French capital ;
those who delight in a combination of elegance
and comfort in their attire, makes a point of enlisting
the services of the skilful workman. A Frenchman is
in his fashions as Sir Robert Peel is in his politics—to
one thing constant never ; it would be, therefore, hope
less to enumerate the novelties at Becker's, but they are
all to be commended fur the good taste which he inva-
riably ditplays. And in that same city of Paris, in the
Rue d'Alger, 13, there dwells a watchmaker, Capt, who
has ;assuredly the art, ad capt-andum ragas, for every
one speaks in the highest possible terms of his clocks
and watches. He has attained the most unerring accu-
racy in chronometers, as several French naval captains
have testified. His flat watches also perform their func-
tions with inconceivable precision ; and he will sell you
a watch no thicker than a five-franc piece, which will
keep time as well as the renowned horloye in the Bourse.
The evening papers have of late been extolling the sys-
tem of book-keeping promulgated by Mr. Foster, whose
establishment adjoins the entrance to King's College.
Air. Foster is knoll n to the mercantile world as the
author of an invaluable code of instructions for mer-
chants' clerks, and others, who sit over the bulky ledger.
His fame as a penman is, we believe, unrivalled ; and,
it is said he is remarkably successful in imparting his
art to his pupils. Many people think it fine to write
badly, because Byron, Canning, and Voltaire wrote a
bad hand. Even Hamlet says

" I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair ;"
but be afterwards found that his skill in writing did him
yeoman's service.—ro.st.