The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

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THE DUKE OF CORNWALL'S HARBOUR AND
LAUNCESTON RAILWAY COMPANY.—A meeting was
held held yesterday, at the London Tavern, of the
Directors and Proprietors of this Company, John
Rushbottom, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, for the pur-
pose of recording the award in the case of the
Company against Ross, their late secretary. It ap-
peared that Ross had made a claim upon the Company
for about 50,0001., and had kept back some of the ac-
counts, involving the Company in litigation. An ac-
tion was brought against him by the Company, and
the matter was referred to arbitration. The award
read yesterday declared Ross to be indebted to the
Company in the sum of 4901. The award was received,
and ordered to be entered on the minutes of the Com-
pany. The Chairman stated that if the shareholders
came forward, their next meeting wonld be their last,
as the affairs of the Company would then be wound up.
Therneeting then adjourned.
COLLEGE LIFE.—" What is college . life ?" the un-
initiated of all
.grades in town and country have been
asking from time immemorial, and until the fortunate
advent of a certain " Peter Priggins, College Scout
and Bedmaker," they have "paused for a reply" in
vain. But the college life then offered to their inspec-
tion by that inimitable droll was, with all its humour
and oddity, of a rather more circumseribed sphere
than many readers might desire. The same clever
writer (who now boldly avows himself by name), has
therefore, as we understand, in his forthcoming vo-
lumes, entitled "College Life," pitched the tone of
his revelations to the tastes of all classes of readers,
and the result will 'doubtless be a work "of infinite
jest," that will set more Christmas tables "in a roar,"
than half a dozen Joe Millers.

THE FOG.—The fog, which was " bad enough" on
Wednesday, deepened in intensity during the latter part
of the night, and had so completely enveloped the
Strand and all other parts adjacent to the Thames on
Thursday in its dusky and impenetrable mantle, as to
have literally converted day into night. The
gas was turned on in all the shops, and candles
were obliged to be used to carry on the necessary
business of the day. We find that it was the same on
Tuesday in Paris. We fear that many accidents
must necessarily have taken place from unavoidable
collisions on the river (especially), as well as in the
streets and roads of and about the metropolis. About
twelve o'clock, however, the atmosphere cleared up, so
that the use of candles in most instances might be dis-
pensed with.
FATAL ACCIDENT DURING THE FOG ON MON-
DAY NIGHT.—Mr. Baker held an inquest on Wednes-
day, at the town of Ramsgate, Wapping, on the body of
Joseph Butler, aged 34, a Custom-house officer, em-
ployed in the London Docks. From the evidence of
John Blyth it appeared that on Monday night he
was on duty with the deceased in the London Docks.
At nine o'clock he was in his hammock, on board the
Thomas llold, when the deceased bade him good night.
`He. answered him, and, as deceased left the vessel, ad-
vised hiin to be very cautious in stepping ashore, as
it was a foggy' night. At that moment he heard a
splash in the water, but though he immediately ran
on deck, he could not see, the fog was so dense, who
had fallen in. The drags were, without loss of time,
procured, and, after a search of half an hour, the
body of the deceased was found.—Verdict--" Acci-
dental Death."

The following are outlines of Lieutenant Sabben's
' lecture on lightning conductors for ships, delivered
at the Green-row -rooms, Portsmouth
:
The first observation of the Lecturer, who, it must
be understood, is an unswerving supporter of the old
principle of conducting the matter of lightning di-
rectly from the truck of a ship over her side into the
sea, and by means of the strong, flexible, and conti-:
nuous wire-rope now manufitetured, and not break-
able but by heavy strain or purposed violence, was an
allusion to the word unscientific, applied in his post-
ing bills, (riving notice of the lecture, to the opposite
system of °W. S. Harris, Esq., F.R.S., whose mode
of disposing of the same consists of a bewildering
right-angled zigzag process, introducing that very
destructive element into a ship, by conductors niade
of strips of copper, inlaid the whole length of her
masts down to her very kelson, and then, by a still
more confused and unintelligible process, discharging
the same through her submerged frame-work. He said,
so firmly convinced was he of the erroneousness of
Mr. Harris's arrangement, that he had purposely'
annexed that harsh term to it as the 'means of
giving full expression to his own dissent, and also of
drawing that public attention to a subject which, all
must acknowledge, deeply affected the maritime in-
terests of the country. The Dian, he continued, viewed
in whatever light, Appeared to --hint so deserving. or
rejection, that it was impossible for him not to feel
humiliation that necessity existed for the task he
had undertaken of exposing its many incinsistencies,
and its many glaring unscientific mistakes. After
a few other preliminary remarks, bat all of import-
ance—the exposition of these errors took place, the
Lecturer, as he went along, pointing out the single-
ness of the electric spark when a battery or Leyden jar
was discharged—that, too, of a flash of lightning; and
in connection with these distinct cases, the singleness
of their resulting effect, each evidently owing its
distinctness to the electricity then in motion, invariably
preserving a collected form. This fact it was main-
tained received strong confirmation from the many
instances Mr. S. Harris had himself published of
damage done by the matter of lightning to ships when
escaping from those it had entered. And in connec-
tion with these recorded accounts. it was acutely
argued, as the disruptions in the vessel's frame-work

so injured, invariabfy took place near the surface of
the sea, on which, on all sides, it was admitted, dis •
charging atmospherical electricity sought to distribute
itself, that there was in consequence strong presump-
tion for saying that all Mr. It's very laboured, very
complicated, and very expensive arrangement, below
that level for disposing of such intruding electric
matter, was altogether superfluous. Nor should it
remain unremarked, that here a benign Providence
seemed to take the matter out of Mr. Harris's hands,
and to be ever ready to defeat the rash and irrational
proceedings of conducting lightning into a ship, when
by a more ready, direct, and scientific process it is
possible to divert it from her. The true conditions
and formation of the electric circle were long dwelt
upon, the Lecturer being evidently anxious that all
should understand that electricity when running the
circuit, employed, only one set or conductors,- even
though thousands of others were in the vicinity of
that one set; that on the selection being made, the
rest remained perfectly unaffected, wholly uninflu-
enced by it. This he satisfactorily proved by refer-
ence to Mr. Harris's own experiments, as well as to
others, and strenuously maintained from these condi-

tions, being unquestionably true, that it inevitably
followed that Mr. H.'s idea of conveying electric
matter out of a ship, simultaneously by many bolts
in her side or bottom, was an untenable assumption;
and which before being made required from him
the proof that he could form, not only one, but many
different electric circles during one discharge of the
Leyden battery. It was particularly impressed, also,
that the success of Mr. 11. 's first experiment with the
Orestes in Portsmouth harbour, the second being a
failure in one of its particulars, was by no means affir-
mative of the efficiency of his conductors; the use
of which would have been entirely and most advan-
tageouly superseded, and rendered altogether useless,
had there been a small wire.,, or wire-rope conductor,
hanging loosely from her. mast head over her lar-
board or inshore side into the sea. Likewise that,
from the success of the first experiment, it was re-
marked, how manifest it was rendered that all things
in connection therewith were under the immediate
ordering and control of the experimenter; not
so, however, in the natural event, which was
ever governed by local attractions, and peculiar
circumstances, which we had no power to adjust
or regulate as we please ; and which, in its
limits, extended no farther than from the surcharged
cloud to the surface of the sea or earth. Be-
fore concluding his comments on this experiment,
the Lecturer said, that it must never be overlobked,
that no such thing occurred in connection with it,
neither would it happen in the natural phenomenon,
as a general distribution of the electricity then in
motion, as Mr. IL's assumption would lead us to ex-
pect, over the metal bolts of a ship and copper sheath-
ing ; otherwise the experiment could not have been
completed ; its full success depending on the fact of its
running unerringly and in a collected form the exact
course designed for it by Mr. llarris. An important
observation was made by the Lecturer, respecting the
nature of the electric spark and of lightning, which
we unwillingly omit in our haste to notice that,
under the head of attraction of conductors, he was
bent on showing that, although Mr. H. had denied
the existence of such influence, all in reality he
had done to disprove it was the substitution of
the term "an easy line of discharge " for the
word " attraction,' leaving all things else pre-
cisely in the same state as before. A diagram, copied
from Mr. ll.'s published papers, was next exhibited,
and one of his foot-notes read; both for the purpose of
evincing that that gentleman fully admitted the uni-
form diffusion of electricity over the entire surface of
conductors ; and yet, unaccountable to explain, as the
Lecturer strikingly observed, he had nevertheless, in
the very face of the fact he had taken pains to illus-
trate, and the reasoning deducible therefrom, inlaid his
own in the masts and attached them to beams,.like one
determined that their entire surface should not come

into use. This, the Lecturer said, would be, however,
the absolute fact whenever his conductors were really
brought into action, and had to transmit, not the trifling
accumulation of a Leyden battery, but a large col-
lected volume of atmospheric electric matter, de-
scending in all its fury, fully employing and occu-
pying his conductors ; and, furthermore, as it was
demonstrable by galvanic experiments, that not only,
as Mr. H. had himself particularly shown, did elec-
tricity equally distribute itself over a conductor,- but
that, as it moved along it, it assumed a revolving mo-
tion, as a waterspout is seen to do round its axis, it
therefore became manifest, both facts arid theii col-
lected effects duly considered, that not only Were loose
hangingconductors, on the principle the Lecturer was
advocating, requisite for the safe discharge of the mat-
ter of lightning, but that, if not free, mischief and
destruction must be expected to fall on the material in
connexion. All this being certain from the foregoing
reasons, it follows that masts fitted according to Mr. H.'s
plan are thereby exposed to imminent danger—inlaid,
conductors along their entire line possessing not the re-
quisite space on all sides around them for such general
superficial diffusion and revolving motion as have been
described to attend passing accumulations of electric
matter, when transmitted by prepared conductors. At

this place the Lecturer most solemnly descanted—
keeping the previous observations steadily in view—
on the fatal effects that might be expected to happen
to a ship protected on Mr. Harris's plan, when a
large volume of the matter of lightning intentionally
and daringly brought into her by its means, had to be
discharged from her by the employment and occupa-
tion of one selected bolt, situated either in her side
or bottom. In such a case, and pains had been taken,
when explaining the condithns of the formation of
the electric circle, to show that such especial selec-
tion would be the consequence, actual distribution of
such electric matter not taking place until it had
reached the surface of the ocean, he said, there was
plainly every reason to conclude that the wood-work
compactly surrounding a bolt so chosen would be splin-
tered off it with violence, while room was making
around it for the free passage of the substance of elec-
tricity : and on this happening, the ship would thereby
become exposed to imminent danger. An actual fact
of this character—the especial selection of one bolt by
passing atmospherical electricity, and when many
others were in its vicinity, and the destruction of the
wood work around it, was noticed ; and the Lecturer
expressed himself confident that in all the cases
afforded by Mr. H. of disruptions made in vessels'
sides by escaping electric matter, could these cases
undergo re-examination, it would be discovered that
the frightful chasms then effected resulted solely from
the mode of operation he (the Lecturer) was then ex-
pounding. Two more of his many other forcibly ex-
plained and well appliedobjections, and the Report ends.
The first is of that remarkably striking Character as
should not fail to attract the general attention it un-
questionably deserves, namely—that in most cases re-
corded, ships when struck by lightning have suffered
only in the upper or loftier portions of their masts, and

that from thence the electric matter has passed harmless
into the sea, and without penetrating their hulls ; a
happy, most happy escape of the destructive element,
which, howerver Mr. H. 's plan presumptuously inter-
• feres with ; for instead of assisting this natural avert-
ing process he most deliberately and intentionally fa-
cilitates and encourages the admission of the unsparing
agent into their very heart, vainly building his powers
of getting rid of it upon his own vain assumption,
that his plan provides for its safe general diffusion,
whereas as has been before observed, such general
distribution does not take place until the element to
be disposed of has passad from a ship or through
some part of her solid frame work and in a collected
form into the sea. The second objection is equally
pertinent as the foregoing, and, in the shape of a ques-
tion, amounts to this, that if lateral conductors, such
as Mr. 11. has attached to the under part of the main
and orlop beams of a ship, he really useful for the dis-
charge and transmission into the sea of an accumula-
tion of atmospherical electricity, that might have de-
scended by means of those of his construction along
the line of masts, why not, in the name of' common
sense, if not of science, have such lateral conductors
leading from the different masts laid over the surface
of the upper deck of all, and by such an arrangement,
reasonably, judiciously, and more scientifically pre-
vent the matter of lightning entering her hull, as it
must now do, to reach the main and orlop beams ?
Here the Lecturer implored all present to answer for
themselves the question he had proposed; and the re-
porter of his lecture, as he concludes his task, solicits
the same from all his readers.
__ _

N.B.—lf ever question involved the scientific
character of a country, the establishment of the per-
fection or worthlessness of W. Snow Harris', Esq.,
F.R.S., principle for defending ships from the effects
of lightning does so. Men of science should look
well into this matter—it concerns them all.

LORD H UNTINGTO `'PER'S IN-
SOLVENCY.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, DEC. 7.
The examination of parties connected with this
Nobleman in bill transactions was continued this
morning at 11 o'clock precisely. Mr. Nias, as before,
conducted the inquiry.
Mr. E. James appeared for Mr. W. H. Douglas, of
Buckingham-street, Strand, who was the person exa-
mined on this occasion.

Mr. Nias—How long, Mr. Douglas, have you been
acquainted with the bankrupt ?—I have known his
Lordship since August, 1839. I have received bills
of exchange and promissory notes from him, but no
other securities. The first transaction was on the
10th of November, 1840. I received on that occa
sion two bills of exchange for 1,0001. each, drawn by
his Lordship on Mr. Montague George Smith. I
paid them 5001. His Lordship and Mr. Smith were
to receive 9201., but 4201. it was agfeed should re-
main in my hands, his Lordship being a minor at the
time the bills were given. That amount was to be
paid to his Lordship at the time he came of age and
paid the bills, which I am quite ready to do. The
money was paid to his Lordship and Mr. Montague
G. Smith, but who had the benefit of it I do not know.
Mr. James said, as Mr. Douglas had vouchers for
his several transactions with his Lordship, it would
perhaps be better that he should be allowed to give a
narrative in detail. He admitted the money was
raised at ruinous rates, but the whole of the; ns-
actions were clear.

Mr. Nias appeared to agree to this course, subject
to his right of putting questions whenever they might
occur to him.

Mr. Douglas here put in a receipt for the payment
of the money. I passed the bills I so received to
Mr. Chandler, Mr. William Whitehead Chandler,
about Nov., 1840, or soon after they came into my
hands.

Mr. Nias—What consideration did he give you for
;hem ?

Mr. James objected to the question. It was not a
tleLordship bankrupt
was ?o—n
dealing with the bankrupt.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE ruled in his favour.
ye
29th second
of transaction
June,
181,
Mr. Nias—What was your second transaction with
14fo.irthilis
elec-
tioneering purposes, and when his Lordship was a
minor.. His Lordship v% idled then to raise 1,0001.,
winch I had authority to get on any terms. This
sum I knew was necessary from other sources to
secure his Lordship's return. I came to London from
Andover, and procured 8001. in 51. notes. It was to
make a great show, which effect it really had. I
handed those to his Lordship up stairs. The notes,
which were called the physic they wanted, having
been exhibited to some of the worthy electors, there
was, of course, a considerable sensation.—(Laughter.)
I mention this to show that his Lordship could be
hardly expected to account fully on such a transaction
as that : it was like water running; trough a sieve.
The notes, as I have said, having, been exhibited to
some of the worthy electors, I was carried into the
room to be introduced to his committee, taking care
to shake up the physic as it was called.—(Loud
laughter. The vein of humour exhibited by the wit-
ness created great merriment.)
Mr. James—To be well shaken before taken, I sup-
pose.—Yes, precisely so ; and it had great effect upon
the electors.—(lncreased laughter.) There were
then four bills drawn of 1,000/. each, accepted by
Lord William Paget, and endorsed by his Lordship,
at six months' date, his Lordship promising when he
came of age he would give me fresh bills. I now
produce the receipts, which show that 1,0001. was
given
for the four bills of exchange, being 8001. at the
election and 2001. afterwards.

(These receipts were read and put before the Court,
being a memorandum pledging the bankrupt to give
fresh bills when required so to do.)
• Mr. Nias—To whom did you pay away these bills?
—Chandler also received these bills. The third trans-
action I had with his Lordship was on the 9th of
July, 1841, and then he was of age. The agreement
was that I should give him 5001. for a bill of 1,0001.
at six months' date. I then gave him 2001. in the
first instance, and the balance at a subsequent date.
Here are the receipts for the payment, &c. These
were read and produced. That 1,000/. bill was also
parted with to Chandler.

Mr. Nias—What was your next transaction with
the bankrupt ?—I agreed with Chandler to procure
bills to the amount of 20,0001. of Lord Huntingtower,
at six months' date, for the discount of which I pro-
posed to give him (Chandler) ss. in the pound, or 50/.
per cent. per annum. I then went down to his Lord-
ship, and proposed to give him 10,0001. for 20,000/
worth of bills, undertaking to his Lordship I would
pay to Mr. Chandler, or the holder of the bills, who-
ever they might be, the same interest for six months
longer, so that his Lordship was not to be called upon
for the payment of these bills for twelve months from
their date ; by carrying out which agreement I should
not have profited one shilling, except having the use
of the 5,0001. for six months. My object in doing
this was in consequence of having the authority of his
Lordship to raise 40,000/. by post-obit, out of which
sum of 40,0001. the whole of those bills were to be
taken up; and I should have made a considerable sum
by completing the transaction. I wish to state that I
never should have entered into the 20,0001. bill trans-
action, had I not had reliance on being able to carry
out the post obit. That contract will show (putting
in a paper) the whole of that transaction, and the ac-
knowledgment of the moneys received. The 20,0001.
were comprised in thirteen bills, and were all drawn
by me upon his Lordship, and upon their receipt I gave
his Lordship 1,0001., 5001. in cash, and 500/. in
check. I now produce a paper corroborative of what
I have stated :

" It is agreed between the undersigned Lord Hunt-
ingtower and William Henry Douglas that the bill
for 10,0001. and the eight of 1,0001. each, and the four
of 5001., all dated this day at six months' date, to be
drawn by William Henry Douglas, and accepted by
Lord Huntingtower' are to be arranged as follows :
5001., which W. H. Douglas has this day paid to his
Lordship, and the check of 5001. on the Union Bank
of London, making together 1,0001., which his Lord-
ship hereby acknowledges to have received, is on ac-
count of, and in part of, the sum of 10,0001. which his
Lordship agrees to take for the before-mentioned
thirteen bills (the thirteen making together the sum
of 20,0000 ; and it is further agreed that the said W.
H. Douglas will obtain the renewal of the said bills
for six months if required by his Lordship so to do ;
and it is lastly agreed that the balance due from W.
H. Douglas to his Lordship, of 9,0001., is to be paid
on or before twenty-one days from this date.
"HUNTINGTOWER.
"W. H. DOUGLAS.
" Southampton, 17th day of July, 1841."
I now produce a similar acknowledgment for the sum
of 2,0001.:
" It is agreed by the undersigned, Lord Hunting..
tower and William Henry Douglas, that the 2,0001.
paid by the latter to the former this day is on account
of the bills named in the agreement. between the above
parties, and dated the 17th of August last, which with
the cash before received by Lord Huntingtower, and
the allowances for discount on the bills drawn by him
upon Montague George Smith, and the loss sustained

by W. H. Douglas for the purpose of obtaining the
above sum of 2,0001., and what he has paid over this
day to his Lordship, is to be allowed and taken as
part of the consideration of the bills more fully set
forth in the before-mentioned agreement, dated the
17th of the month last past.
"Dated, at Andover, the 25th day of August, 1841.
" Memorandum.—There is 6,000/. to be paid to
Lord Huntingtower to make up the full amount of
the bills before-mentioned, stated in the agreement of
the 17th of August last.
" HUNTINGTOWER."
The date mentioned in the last exhibit is a mistake,
and should be the 17th of-July, as in the original
agreement, and not the 17th of August. This is ma-
terial, as it would appear his Lordship had had two
transactions of the same kind. It was written on
board the Gitana, which will account for it. I now
exhibit another paper, containinc, two acknowledg-
ments for the receipt f money as follows :
"Dear Sir,—l =knowledge this day to have re-
ceived the sum of 1,0001., making in all 5,0001., which
I have received in part discount of my acceptances to
the amount of 20,0001. " HUNTINGTOWER."
That was written at the hotel at Andover.
" N.B.—There is now 5,0001. more to come to we
for bills to the amount of 10,0001. returned, being
dated since I came of age.—September 25, 1844-."
" I have received 4001. more of the above.
" HUNTINGTOWER."
This was all written at the hotel at Andover. I must
here state that his Lordship's credit had suffered so
much from the improper conduct of parties who in
transactions' with him had taken every advantage,
that I found I could have bought his bills for any
thing that I chose to offer for them. I did all I could
where I found they had been offered at a nominal
value to prevent their getting into general circula-
tion, by assuring all parties that the bills offered at
such rates must have been improperly obtained from
his Lordship. I had authority from his Lordship to
do so. By that means I prevented a very large amount
of such bills getting into circulation. Lord Hunting.
tower and Lord William Paget had entered into an
agreement that if the four bills of 1,000/. each upon
which they were both liable, and which were given
at Andover for the purposes of the election, could be
taken up and returned by Lord Huntingtower to Lord
"William Paget, that then Lord William Paget would
resign his seat in Parliament for the purpose of Lord
Huntingtower's being returned. To accomplish this,
I discounted the bills I then had of his Lordship's,
which I had drawn upon him, and are more particu-
larly mentioned in the agreement of the 17th of July,
and paid the 4,0001., and delivered the same over to
his Lordship. I then obtained for his Lordship an
acknowledgment now produced. This states that the
10,000/., the sum agreed, is now reduced to 3,0001.,
and is dated Nov. 5, 1841. I must here state that
this will account for the statement made by his Lord-
ship when he was examined under this fiat, to the ef-
fect that he had given a receipt for more than actually
came into his hands. That was true, because in the
receipt for, 9,7001. was included bills for 4,0001., which
I took from the holders and returned to him. It in-
cluded, likewise, 388/. 65., which I had paid Mr.
Chandler for the purpose of obtaining the 2,0001.
which his Lordship had received in August, and about
2001. fur renewals that I had paid on other bills. The
3001. was afterwards paid in small sums, which makes
up the 10,000/. I agreed to give. That closes the
transaction as far as his Lordship was concerned. I
have never made 1,0001. by Lord Huntingtower in all
my life.

Mr. James here stated that Mr. Douglas could
show, if the Court thought it necessary, how his
account stood with his Lordship in the shape of profit.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said it was not at
all necessary:

Examination continued by Mr. Nias.—l parted
with 14,000/. out of the '20,0001. worth of bills I drew
upon his Lordship, to W. W. Chandler, and the re-
maining 6,0001. worth to Mr. Chandler, through
Edward Sherborn, of the Strand. This I was obliged
to do, because he was the holder of the four bills Lord
Huntingtower wanted me to take up for the purpose
of returning to Lord Wm. Paget; and as I only had
two or three hours to get them, and Mr. Chandler
was out of town, I applied to Mr. Sherborn for the
four bills, which was the first transaction I ever had
with him.

Mr. Nias—llave you had any other transaction
with Lord Huntingtower ?—My next and last trans-
action with his Lordship was this—l was applied to
by Mr. Cockell, of Berners-street, Russell-square
who stated that he had a friend who held a 5,0001:
security with which his Lordship was mixed up, and
had taken place during his minority ; if I could get
his Lordship to give a security now he was of age,
for that security he would make a further advance
of 2,000/. to his Lordship, and give me 1001. for get-
ting the business done. This I did. In consequence
I saw his Lordship, and two promissory notes were
given—one for 5,000/., dated the 30th of Nov., 1841,
payable three months after date to his own order,
and endorsed by him ; and the other for 3,5001., the
same date, and drawn and endorsed in the same man-
ner. The 5,000/. note was a renewal of the old trans-
action, 3,500/. being interest due upon the 5,000/., the
discount of the 3,500/., and the 2,000/., the sum then
advanced to his Lordship. I now produce the re-
ceipt given by his Lordship at the time. That
receipt was written at Ilatchard's Hotel, Piccadilly,
and dated Dec. 6, 1841. It has an endorsement of
1,7001. cash, and other items, which I will explain,
making up the 2,0001. cash advanced. My explana-
tion of that endorsement is, that I paid hig Lordship
the 2,000/. in cash, the same notes I received from Mr.
Clekell, and within half an hour of my getting them.
His Lordship on that occasion paid me 1001. for a
chestnut horse he had previously bought, 35/. I had
lent him a day or two before, and 1651. in consequence
of the little profit I had made out of the 20,0001.
transaction, which, with the 1,700/. cash, makes the
2,000/.

Mr. Nias.—What became of the security you state
was redeemed from Cockell ?—Mr. Cockell asked for

and received from me a letter authorising him to
hand the security over to Mr. H. Gompertz ; why I
don't know. _

Mr. Nias.—By whose authority did you give that
agreement with Lord Huntingtower was
him 2001., and as he never gave me any au-
thority to withdraw it or otherwise, I looked upon it
in the same light as Mr. Cockell did, viz., that the
original transaction was not worth a farthing, it oc-
curring during the minority.
Mr. Nias—Did you take the precaution of cancell-
ing. it when you gave the new note ?—I never saw it.
I did not know what the security was ; whether bill,
note, or bond, I know not.
Mr. Nias--Did you take any undertaking from
Mr. Cockell to cancel it ?—No ; I did not. My agree-
ment with his Lordship was merely to get the 2,0001.
Mr. Nias—Then, did you in fact receive anything
for the 5,0001. promissory note of the bankrupt, dated
November 30, 1841, which you gave Mr. Cockell ?
I received nothing whatever, neither money, security,
nor anything else.
Mr. Nias—What consideration did you receive from
Chandler for the bills you have stated ?
Mr. James contended this question could not be
put. It was no dealing between the bankrupt and the
witness.

Mr. Nias said the question was proper. The agree-
ment of the 20,0001. bills showed an agency between
the parties.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE decided the con-
tract established agency on both sides, and that, there-
fore, Mr. Douglas must answer the question. It was
the agreement of agent and principal, in which the
payment of commission appeared.
Question repeated by Mr. Nias—What considera-
tion did you receive from Chandler for the bills you
have stated ?—I cannot state what I received for the
bills of Lord Huntingtower in all cases. For the
14,0001. of bills I received in cash, or what realised
cash (you had better call it cash), 4,7951 or there-
abouts ; the rest was made up in discounts, old bills,
and 3881. allowance for the purpose of procuring some
cash—the 2,0001. noticed before as paid to his

Lordship.
Mr. Nias—State what you received—the particu-
lars rather of 4,7951., or what you call cash ?—Cash,
checks, and bills, but I cannot give you the particulars.
Mr. Nias—Can you give the particulars of any
part ?—I should say the actual cash—l mean bank
notes—was '2,295/. I cannot give you the particulars
of the rest, I put it against myself as cash.
Mr. Nias—Whose checks were they that you allude
to ?—I cannot tell you that.
Mr. Nias—State the particulars of the bills that
you say constituted part of the 4,7951. ?—I cannot
tell what bills they were ; they were mixed up with
other transactions, and I cannot divide them—that is
impossible.
Nias—Arei‘r your transactions with Lord Hun-
tingltO wer entered in any books kept by you P—No ;
I keep no books. My- transactions are such that I am
glad to get rid of them. I should not get any sleep
if I were to keep books. The bill dealings with
Chandler respecting his Lordship are not entered in
any books of mine. 1 keep no books. I have no

Lord Huntingtower, in answer to the question of
the Learned Counsel, said, the bill transactions he
had had in connexion with Captain Byng were for a
large amount. When he said or intimated that Capt.
Byng had not furnished him with the proceeds of
certain bills, it arose from the circumstance of bills
coming against him with Captain Byng's name, which,
as he knew nothing- of them, he, of course, thought
Captain Byng would not have given up without re-
ceiving some.
consideratiOn. In the multiplicity of
transactions that had occurred between them, it was,
however, quite possible that these bills might have got
into circulation without Captain Byng having in any
manner committed a breach of trust.
In the course of the proceedings, Mr. Samuel
Bamford Hamer's clerk came forward to excuse hie
principal's attendance to-day on account of ill health.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said, as "no medical
certificate was produced, it was an insufficient reason,
and without Mr. flamer attended the next day named
his disregard of the summons would be treated ac-
cordingly.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We must really come to the rescue of
Messrs. Acland and Dickinson from the ruthless Post,
ere it utterly make an end of these twin pillars of
the Ministry of its own party. "We have again,"
says the Post, " looked through the speeches of the
Conservative Members for Somerset, upon which
we commented yesterday. The object of our
search was to find some avowal of some high
principle of duty—some patriotic sentiment—
some generous sympathy—some affectionate re-
mark. Our search has been in vain. We find
nothing that a heartless Whig might not have
spoken." We shall not contest the Post's remark,
that the Peel Conformers are heartless "Whigs.
Heartless men generally appear when they address
uncongenial audiences with unwelcome truths,
which truths they had previously suppressed, to
gain votes from those audiences. Heartless men
generally appear in enforcing views not the product
of their own minds—and views the hearty enforcement
of which displaced others, to make room for them.
Heartless men generally appear when confronted
with those other, who—their hearts tell them—
have a right to feel 'theirs swell with an honest pride
in hearing their convictions echoed by those who had
decried, their views adopted by those who had de-
nouneed them. All this is heartless work enough for
the party in power doubtless : they are naturally
enough heartless Whigs ; but we, the Outs, have ac-
quired ample right, by the new tendencies of our for-
mer opponents, to take heart, and exclaim Sursunt
corda !—as Sir Robert Peel (after Burke) one day
admonished the Glasgow students. It is good for us
to be here ! The Ins who drove us out,' now carry us
out. Far from the fact being, as has been somewhere
asserted, that Whigs have grown ashamed of the
name, you may know a Whig now by his loftier port,
mid his air of rectitude vindicated.
Men met each other with erected look,
The steps were higher that they took,
Friends to congratulate their friends would haste,
And old inveterate foes saluted as the passid.
But we return to our apology for Messrs. Acland and
Dickinson—" Things," exclaims the Post, " have
changed so as to enable Mr. Acland to throw aside
all delicacy in alluding to the Whig gentle-
man, Mr. Sanford, and to be very glad to
meet him upon a public occasion. We wish Mr.
Acland would speak out, and tell the public what
he means." Now this is very hard on Mr. Acland's
" delicacy." On the occasion of the rape of the Sa-
blues, we don't suppose the ladies spoke out, yet it
appeared afterwards they were not sorry to be trans-
ferred to the opposite camp. Here has evidently been
a rape of the Tories ; these delicate " deserters," as the
Post calls them, have been borne off in triumph in the
nervous logical grasp of Lords John Russell and Pal-
merston. Mr. Sanford sits with his blushing conquests
beside him, who " throw aside all delicacy. We wish
him joy. of his brace of bonnes fortunes, perhaps unex-
pectedm their frankness.

STANDARD.—And now one word to the discon-
tented Conservatives and to the Leaguers. Let these
persons answer the one the other. The discontented
Conservatives say that they have not sufficient pro-
tection ; the Leaguers, on the other hand, assert that
any protection is too much. The sayings of those in-
cendiaries are, indeed, worthless; but their doings
are, at least evidence in the matter of fact. Wby are
there Leaguers ? 'Why is there a League ? Thieves
do nct force a house which they know to be empty; and,
generally, where there is nothing to plunder there will
be no thieves. The existence and activity of the
League is, therefore, proof that agriculture is pro-
tected under the present law, and protected to an
extent which stimulates the cupidity of the Leaguers.
How, then, are the majority of Conservatives, who
never demanded more than a reasonable protection
to industry and enterprise, inconsistent in avowing
themselves contented ? But the farmers are suf-
fering : we know it and lament it ; but if they
want to know the real cause of their suffering
let them look beyond the Corn-law of last session,
let them look to the Poor •law of 1834; that
is the law which has universally diminished con-
sumption. If they who have realised their
twenties and thirties of thousands of pounds per an-
num out of the reduced wages of labour, could, like
Mrs. Quickly's tyrant, " put all the substance of
the poor into that fat belly of theirs," the farmers
might suffer less by the accumulation ; but unfortu-
nately though the A.'s, and B.'s and C.'s of the League
starve by thousands—they eat but as units; and the
farmer loses in demand all that the money-
getters gain by starvation of the poor. The adop-
tion of the scheme to reduce the people "of
a coarser kind of food" was the severest blow
ever inflicted upon the agriculture of the country
and Ireland
populationd oes n noto growe propomurtcihonwhtoeatitsasexEtenngt_.
l d
o in
as one-fourth
Eng-
land ; but wheat is neverthelessangrtohNavn in n—endi
bears a much lower price in Ire
Eng-
land. Why ? Because the mass of the Irish
English labourers be p
people do not eat wheeritanle.nettlythberoucognhdtitidoonwonf,
as the New Poor-law will bring it down, to the
condition of the Irish labourer, and three-fourths
of the wheat now grown in England would want
a market. In the same way it is the degrada-
tion and poverty of the labouring classes in Poland
and other countries on the Continent which enables,
or rather compels, the farmers and landowners in
those countries to send wheat to England to over-
whelm our markets, if there were no Corn-laws to
regulate its admission. " Live and let live," is an
excellent rule between landlord and tenant ; but is it
not just as good a rule between employer and la-
bourer ? The farmer who, according to the phrase,
screws his labourer with that instrument of torture
with which the New Poor-law furnishes him, affords
to the landlord a hint and a justification for screwing
him in turn.

SWINDLING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Snl,--You will oblige several subscribers by ix-
serting the following cases of swindling :
A person calling himself Moorhouse, and professing;
to be a commercial traveller, is going through York-
shire, stopping a night or so at commercial hotels, and
decamping without paying his bills. This be did het
week at the Black Lion, Burlington; the Bell, at
Scarborough; the Bell, at Duffield; and, I believe,
the Tiger, at Beverley. He stated at Burlington that
he was from Manchester, and in the drapery trade.,
He is dressed in a black surtout-coat and trousers,
his hat is much worn, and he appears from 45 to 50
years of age ; is very fond of spirits (chiefly brandy),
is of good address, and fond of talking politics. Should
this meet his eye he will do well to remit the bills he
has left unpaid in the above towns, as active steps are
being taken to have him apprehended.
Bridlington, Dec. 2, 1842.

POISONING GAME.—We regret to say that some
evil disposed person or persons have been poisoning
the pheasants in the preserves at Stow, and that a
large quantity have been found dead by the keepers.
We sincerely hope the parties will be found out.—
Cambridge Advertiser.'