ht before the Bench of Surrey Magistrates, at Wandsworth; and after
several examinations, Lord Cardigan was committed for trial on the charge
of "Shooting at Capt. H. Tuckett with a pistol, with intent to murder, or
do him some bodily harm"; and his second, for aiding and abetting him.
The charge was laid under "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Offences
against the Person" (1 Vic., c. 85, s. 3), which makes the offence set
forth in the charge, a felony, punishable, at the discretion of the
Court, with transportation beyond the seas, for the term of his, or her,
natural life, or for any term not less than fifteen years, or to be
imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years.

He was tried in the House of Lords, on 16 Feb., 1841, by his peers, and
the case against him broke down through a technicality. His counsel, Sir
William Follett, pointed out that the prosecution had failed in proving a
material part of their case, inasmuch as no evidence had been given that
Captain Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett was the person alleged to have been
on Wimbledon Common on the 12th September last, and whose card only bore
the name of Captain Harvey Tuckett. The peers present returned a verdict
of "Not guilty," with the exception of the Duke of Cleveland, who added
"Not guilty, legally."

The use of steam at sea was beginning to assert itself. It was only two
years since, that I had to chronicle the voyages of the _Sirius_ and the
_Great Western_ across the Atlantic--now we have the first steamship to
India, sailing on 25 Sep. She was called _The India_, and was 1,200 tons
and nearly 400 horse-power. She sailed for Calcutta, calling at the Cape
of Good Hope, where she was to stop five days. It was expected that she
would complete her voyage, including stoppages, within 75 days.

On 30 Sep. the foundation stone of the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square
was laid, without ceremony. It was a large block of Dartmoor granite,
weighing 14 tons; and, on 16 Oct. the tenders for building the new Royal
Exchange were settled. They varied very considerably, and the contract
was given to the lowest, that of Messrs. Webb, of Clerkenwell, whose
tender was 2,000 pounds under the architect's estimate.

About this time we begin to hear of Mormonism in England; not that it was
absolutely new, for, on 20 July, 1837, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde,
Willard Richards, Joseph Fielding and others, landed at Liverpool, on the
first mission sent out