The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The unfavourable state of
the weather has preventedhher Majesty leaving the
Castle.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the
Riding-school, and remained there an hour. The
Prince was attended by Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater.

Lord Glenlyon took his departure from the Castle
on Saturday.
Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to-day
on a visit to the Queen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, and Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt of St.
Leonard's-hill, will join the Royal Dinner Circle this
evening. Covers are laid for eighteen. The Royal
Dinner Party at the Castle is also expected to include
Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Hon. Miss Lister,
Hon. Miss Liddell, Sir Henry Wheatley, Marquis of
Ormonde. Hon. C. A. Murray, Captain Meynell,
Captain Francis Seymour, and the Equerries in Wait-
ing on her Majesty and on his Royal Highness.

The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Saturday for
the residence of Lord Haddo, at St. Leonard's, near
Windsor. His Lordship returned to town yesterday
morning. Sir James Graham paid a visit to the
Noble Earl in the afternoon at the Foreign-office.
His Excellency the American Minister returned
to Grosvenor-place on Wednesday, from a visit to Sir
Robert Peel at Drayton Manor, and left town the
following day with Mrs. and Miss Everett, to pass
Christmas with Lord and Lady Ashburton at the
Grange.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has left Hagley
Park, Worcestershire, on a visit to Sir. Stephen
Glynne, Bart., at his seat Hawarden Cascle, Flintshire.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

THE QUEEN V. SMITH AND SHIELDS.

SlR—The report of the:proceedings on the trial of this
indictment, as presented by your paper of the 14th
inst., is most unjust towards Mr. Boast, the prosecu-
tor. It is only just presented to my notice, and in
justice to Mr. Boast, I trust you will remove the im-
pressions created by your report, so far as the facts
will enable you to do so. That Mr. Boast had been
bankrupt and taken the \ benefit of the Insolvent Deb-
tors' Act, and in certain disputes between himself and
a disappointed partner, had been indicted on a charge
of perjury, were circumstances sufficient to prejudice
the minds of any Jury sitting upon a criminal charge
against convicting upon the evidence of a prosecutor
compelled to make such admissions; and with that
conviction Mr. Clarkson opened the case for the pro-
secution as not dependingiupon the testimony of the
prosecutor; yet no sooner had the prosecutor been
examined and such factsiadmitted, than it was sug-
gested that the prosecution should be abandoned. A
very little experience of the Common Sergeant at the
Criminal Court will be sufficient to induce the opinion
that first impressions have great effect upon his mind,
and to that is to be attributed the result of the above
prosecution. However, as to the charge of perjury,
above referred to, it should have appeared in your re-
port, as was stated in Court, that the defendant (Mr.
Boast) was acquitted upon the examination of the pro-
secutor, and his acquittal was accompanied with the
expression of the regret of Lord Denman, who pre-
sided at the trial, that matters of a purely civil cha-
racter should be so readily made the subject of crimi-
nal charges. The newspaper containing the report
of the trial with such remark of Lord Denman, was
in Court, and referred to in the examination of Mr.
Boast.

'Vith reference to the charge of forgery referred to
in your report (although the name is mis-stated), no
criminal charge was ever made against Mr. Boast;
and the fact that the holders of all the supposed forge-
ries were admitted to prove the bills against the estate
of the person whose name was alleged to have been
forged under the fiat of bankruptcy issued against
such party, and prosecuted at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy in Basinghall-street, is sufficient evidence to
controvert the charge of a criminal act. The alleged
connexion with the lady, and which is to be inferred
from your report, was positively denied by Mr. Boast
on his examination. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
W. STAFFOiID,
Solicitor for Mr. Boast in the above prosecution.
Buckingham-street, Strand, Dec. 24, 1842.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
BOAST V. SMITH AND SHIELDS.
SIR,—My attention having been called to your re-
port of this case of the 14th inst., and having some
time since been, and also my wife being, patients of
Mr. Boast, I feel called upon to state, lest my wife
might be considered as the Mrs. Cox cutting so
prominent a figure in such report, that the real
name of that lady is Cock.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
Dover-road, Dec. 17. JAMES COX.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.

The betting yesterday was just what might have been
expected on the day following Christmas, i. e., flat
and unimportant. A list of the engagements booked on
the Derby will suffice :

DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken and afterwards offered
25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Murat—taken to 601.
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour—taken to 101.

33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Progress colt.—t
1000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Lucetta colt—t 6 times
2000 to 30 agst Major Yarburgh's Dumpling—do.
500 even between Blackdrop and Oygen colt—taken
Mr. James Bland, one of the few surviving proffes-
sional turf speculators, of the old school, died in Picca-
dilly on Sunday night.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Our respected Mem-
ber, E. R. Rice, Esq., with Captain D'Aeth, Mr.
Hodges, and another gentleman, visited the Shak-
speare And Abbot's Cliff Tunnels last week, when
they expressed themselves highly gratified with their
abeesppeacff
ral?eerivasnnweL ellnaesartlhe
one-thirdprogre progress
bmeaindge ienemthpeleAtebd:
On their return they werye further gratified by having
a view of a blast of two barrels of gunpowder, as a
specimen of the manner in which many tons of the
cliff over the sea-wall have been brought down
within the last few months, and in which it is in-
tended to bring down the Round-down. We are
happy to hear that all the persons who lately received
injury on these works have, with very few exceptions,
returned to their employment, and that none of the
accidents have proved fatal to life or limb, save in the
ease of the poor boy Lorden, some three or four
months back.—Dover Chronicle.
BIGAMY.—A FAMILY COMPLAINT.—A young man,
named William Bowden, was brought before a county
magistrate on Tuesday, at Stockport, on a charge of
bigamy. It was proved that he was married to Mary
Holland, at the parish church of Ashton-under-Lyne,
on the 17th of May, 1835, and in July, 1839, to Betty
Holland, at Almondbury, near Huddersfield ; both of
whom are now living. He was committed for trial;
but, on the application of Mr. W. Vaughan, who ap-
peared on his behalf, bail was accepted tbr his appear-
ance at the assizes. Strangely enough, the prisoner's
mother, Hannah Bowden, who, on hearing of his ap-
prehension, had come to see him, was also taken into
custody, under a warrant which had some time been
out against her on a similar charge. She was also
brought before a county magistrate the same day,
when Mr. J. S. Barrett, deputy constable, stated, that
a few years ago the prisoner was married to a person
named John Smith, of Stockport, her first husband,
Joseph Bowden, being then and new living at Shef-
field. Smith is also living at the present time ; but
the prisoner and he had separated some time ago, and
she had lately been residing with a man named
Joseph Lockett, near Huddersfield, to whom, it was
supposed, she had also been married. She was re-
manded.

The number of butchers' shops in Brighton wa
ascertained the other day, for the purpose of deeding
a bet. It seems that the bet offered was, that the
number was nearer 100 than 60, a position which
turned out to be correct, the number proving to be 81.

MR. AULAND, M.P., AND THE
CORN-LAWS.
Killerton, Dec. 22, 1842.
My Dear Lord, It was not till yesterday that I
saw in the Standard of Tuesday an account of an
agricultural meeting at Barnstaple, in which it is
stated that your Lordship read an extract from the re-
port of a speech of mine at Yeovil, and expressed
" your satisfaction that those sound and just principles
which you had always advocated were supported by a
gentleman, who, not twelve months ago, was of a dif-
ferent opinion ;" and further, that your lordship asked
when you saw such " "persons throwing
aside their former opinions, whether you might not
safely argue the probability that greater alterations
would take place in the introduction of foreign produce."
I have hitherto not thought it necessary to notice
the various criticisms which have been made on the
speeches at the Yeovil meeting, because I felt that a
very undue importance was given to what passed
there. But as your Lordship has brought my name so
prominently forward in the county adjoining that of
which I have the honour to be one of the representa-
tives, it seems incumbent on me to show whether I
have "thrown aside my former opinions ;" and I,
therefore take the liberty of addressing your Lordship,
as the means of publicly disclaiming the construction
which has been set upon my expressions.
It is the more necessary that I should allude to
your Lordship's remarks, because the report of your
Lordship's speech contains what appears to be one
continuous extract from my own, whereas, in fact,
the words are taken from two distinct passages—the
one relating to agriculture, and the other to the glove
trade. I believe that my only direct allusion to legi-
slative questions, affecting the agricultural interest,
was confined almost to a single sentence, in which I
stated that I had nothing to regret in having support-
ed measures which I believed to have been dictated by
fairness and moderation, and by a due consideration
of the various interests of the country. I then ex-
pressed my satisfaction that just protection had been
secured to the glove trade, in which Yeovil is so
deeply interested, and ventured to advise the glove
manufacturers not to place so much reliance on pro-
tection, as to relax their exertions for the improve-
ment of their manufacture; and I added that the best
security, alike for agriculture and manufactures, is to
be found in the direction of increased intelligence to
the object of producing the best article " at as low a
cost as possible ;" not, as I am reported to have said—
" at the lowest price," in reference to the price in
other countries, but at as low a cost as possible, in
reference to the circumstances of England.
This, I believe to be the substance of what I stated
at Yeovil, and it does not appear to me to justify the
charge of a change of opinion.
To cheapen the cost, as well as to increase the
quantity of production by encouraging improvements
in agriculture, appears to me one of the main objects
of agricultural associations; and the more completely
they succeed in promoting this object, the more unan-
swerable, in my opinion, is the claim of the British
farmer to fair protection ; of such protection I am now,
as I ever have been, the decided advocate. In the pre-
sent circumstances of this country, protection to agri-
culture is not, as far as I can judge, too high ; I ear-
nestly hope that it may not prove too low. I never
sought to obtain favour by professing to advocate
exclusively, or to an extreme length, the claims
of any one interest; and, therefore, I am not
open to the charge of inconsistency, for speak-
ing now in a tone of moderation, which
I have maintained under other circumstances. I
trust that all prognostications of changes, tending to
disturb a settlement so recently made, will prove as
ill-grounded as those which have no better founda-
tion than the proceedings at the Yeovil meeting. At
that meeting (I may be permitted to add), had I
thought it the proper occasion for making these ex-
planations, and repelling the charge of a change of
opinion, an ample opportunity was afforded me ; but
I have so strong a sense of the inexpediency of di-
verting such meetings from their proper object, by
giving them a political character, that I then re-
frained ; and I am very glad to have now a fitter op-
portunity for correcting any misapprehension to which
my expressions have given rise—l have the honour
to be, my dear Lord, yours, very faithfully,
THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, Jur'.
To the Right Hon. Earl Fortescue.

NON-INTRUSION CANT.—The most abominable
feature of the Non-Intrusion agitation is the cant of
its leaders and promoters. Not content with assert-
. ing their honesty and their faith in the soundness of
their principles, they blasphemously assume that they
are fighting God's battles, and that all who are op-
posed to them are in league with the powers of dark-
ness. Dr. Candlish told a large meeting that Satan
was in the Convocation, and was like to have caused
some disturbance, but that the Lord had defeated
him • ether parties, who have since given explanations
of the proceedings, have adopted the same style.—
Aberdeen Herald.
CHEAP LtviNG.—ln the provision market of Co-
lumbus, Ohio, last week, the finest turkeys were sell-
ing at 25 cents each; geese at 18 cents; ducks at 16
cents the pair ; and chickens at 75 cents a dozen—six-
pence a piece ! Beef at 2 cents per lb., and other
eatables in proportion. A cheap place to live in, that
Columbus must be. But perhaps, as Pat said of the
state of things in Ireland—a turkey could he bought
for sixpence—but the plague was to get the money."
—Commercial Advertiser.
The Hon. 11. C. Lowther, M.P., for Westmorland,
who is now at Cottesmore, is shortly expected at
Lowther Castle, in the county of Westmorland, the
seat of his father, the Venerable Earl of Lonsdale, to
enjoy the pleasures of the wood and field, in pursuing
the recreation of pheasant and partridge shooting in the
ample preserves surrounding the locality of Lowther.
There is a young woman at Abergavenny, who,
sixteen years ago, had the misfortune to have a darning
needle, and a piece of thread in it, thrust into her
arm, and a few weeks since it came out at the ankle,
the thread still in it; the needle was much smaller
than when it went in, and considerably bent. During
its passage from her arm to her ancle, she never ex-
perienced any pain from it, but the leg is now very
painful, being considerably inflamed. Monmouth
Merlin.

NOVEL MODE OF ROBBING A HEN. RoosT.--Farmer
Budd, of North Fareham, had his fowl-house robbed
a few nights since, in the following novel manner, of
nine fowls :—The thieves having found a hole in the
house large enough for their purpose, sent in a ferret,
secured by a string, which, on seizing a fowl, was
drawn to the hole, the bird taken, and the trick re-
peated. The tenth experiment failed by the string
breaking, leaving the ferret behind to disclose the
manner of a robbery, which otherwise would have
been unaccountable. Many fowl-houses in the neigh-
bourhood have lately been robbed in this ingenious
way.—Hampshire Advertiser.
EDUCATION OF A GERMAN LADY.—The education
of a German lady is, to us, a very singular one. It is
composed of the two extremes of household useful-
ness and social ornament. Accomplishments are
carefully taught. All that tends to give the ladies
eclat in the ball-room and in large companies, they
are more regularly drilled into even than ours. Music
and dancing are indispensable. The French lan-
guage has long been universal, and English is now
becoming so. Their greater intercourse with fo-
reigners keeps in use their French. Music is so much
a national enjoyment, that not only all young wo-
men, but almost all young men, play on the piano
and sing. This is not only a great relief to the mo-
notony of private life, and an elegant and refining
enjoyment for the evening circle—especially to weary
men, harassed or exhausted by the daily tug of their
affairs—but is conducive to the pleasure of those
agreeable little parties which abound so much among
the Germans : where singing, a dance, and simple
rapidly the hours.—Howitt'sGermany.
naSaturday last, her Majesty the Queen
Dowager honoured this town with a visit. Her
Majesty, availing herself of the extremely favourable
state of the weather, was in an open carriage, drawn
games pass
POOLE.—On
by four horses, and was attended by several of her
Majesty's suite, also in an open pony carriage.. The
Royal party drove slowly through the High-street,
round the Quay, and along the west shore, whence
they returned to Canford House. Her Majesty, who,
we rejoice to Says y looked quite well and much
pleased, was received with every demonstration of the
most loyal and respectful attention. The bells in the
church tower were rung in celebration of the honour
bestowed upon the town.—Somerset County Gazette.

TORY JOBBlic
o.—The appointment of Captain
Superintendent of the Royal William Victualling
Yard and Royal
on Captain
Captain John Coode, R.N., C.B. is about to be con-
ferred Hospital at Plymouth, lately held by
Sir G. Cockburn
Richard Arthur, R.N., brother of
Sir George Arthur a zealous political supporter of
(Chairman, if we mistake not, of Sir
George's election committee at Plymouth). By this
appointment, a
annum will be at the disposal of Lord Haddington,
naval good service pension of 1501. per
we'leyh distinguishedwi 11, u'e i
service,be
no
to
ansa
somep a
yomffiecnetrfoor
politicalof
a
agency. Captain Richard Arthur (a Captain
of 1810) commanded the Vesuvius bomb at Copenha-
rl
gen, and was
Posted from the Cherokee for a gallant
and successful attack on seven privateers under the
batteries of Dieppe in 1810. He has, however, been
fully employed,
and, besides the C. 8., has had a good
service pension bestowed upon him. He is an excel-
lent officer, and our sole objection to his appointment
is, a desire to see a more equal division of the very
few good things
which the Board of Admiralty have,
in these piping times of peace, to give away.— United
Service Gazette. _