The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

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23d Foot—Private John 'Warren, severely.
34th Fnot—Private W. Silk,sligrhtly.

39th Foot—Private Joseph Brown, slightly.
41st Foot—Private Thomas Curry, slightly.
48th Foot—Martin Healy, slightly.
49th Foot—Private Maurice Uniacke, slightly.
57th Foot—Private John Derham, severely.
68th Foot—Private Thomas Gannon, slightly.
88th Foot—Corporal John Riely, severely ; Privates
Tho nas McManas, severely; Patrick Sheehan, slightly;
Edward Farrell, severely ; Robert McKeon, Thomas
McLoughlau, and Ed ward Quinlan, slightly ; John Lowe,
dangerously.
00th Foot—Corporals John Lenane, dangerously ; E.
Clarke, severely; Privates Michael O'Malley, Christopher
Boyle, Edward Connell, Patrick Riley, Samuel Oxley,
Dennis Lynch, John Fair, severely ; John Gall, slightly ;
Patrick M`Donald, James Clements, Patrick M'NamAra,
Francis Cummings, 'Vm. M`Giuty, severely; Robert Pal-
mer, John Halls, slightly.
95th Foot—Lance-Corporal Thomas Long. slightly.
97th Foot—Miliiulan, M. Maloney, J. Arkwright,
severely.

2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—Colour-Seijeant Charles
Marsh, slightly; Seijeant Joseph Cook, slightly; Privates
Joseph Cattrell, George Monk, .severely ; Charles Goiby,
slightly.
. Royal Sappers and Ali ners—Smrjeant Benjamin Castle-
dine, slightly; Lance-Corporal Wm. Monde, dangerously ;
Private James CAquhoulie, slightly.
Royal Artillery Gunners Wm. Poke, slightly; John
Burn, dangerously ; John Longwell, severely.
W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant-General.

Enclosure 5.

.NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES `ASSING, FROM
THE 24TH TO THE 26rtt AUGUST, 1855.

MISSING.
AUG. 25.

lst Battalion Scotch Fusilier Guttrds—Lanct-Serjaan
James IVlcGlachlan ; Private Patrick Martin.
W. L. PAKENHANI, Adjutant General.

THE CONREILS DE PRDD'HOMMES IN
FRANCE AATT) I?VOLAND.

A paper published by order of ti f; House of Commons
on the motion of Sir G. Qrey, Bart., supplies some in-
teresting information respecting the Conseils de Prud'-
hommes. The existence of these conseils dates from the
year 1806, when the great Napoleon established a "Con-
seil de Prud'hommes" in Lyons, by a law of that year.
An imperial decree issued iu 1809, and amended by a
decree of 1810, contained the regulations in detail under
which they were to be established and conducted, and
provided that the Government might create similar tri-
bunals wherever it should think fit. • In 1807 Rouen
and Nismes obtainied them, and several other French
towns in 1808 and 1809. Paris, strangely enough, was
without a Conseil de Prud'hotnmes until 1844, chiefly
on account of the practical difficulties which it was ex-
pected would arise from the great variety of the branches
of !manufacture there carried on ; but' in that year one
Conseil de Prud'hommes was established there, and in
1847 three more.' The number of conseils in France in
1849—a year after the downfall of the dynasty of Louis
Philippe—amounted to 74, and their number is at pre-
sent about the same. At the revolution of 1348, when
the Orleans family was dethroned and driven from
France, several violent changes were made in the regu-
lations applicable to them, but the law on the sub-
ject was again altered, in some important points,
hy• the imperial law of the Ist of June, 1853. The
couseils are established by Governmental decree, on
the advice rf a Chamber of Commerce, or a Chamber of
Arts and Manufactures. The number of members is not
to he les4 than six, exclusive of the president and vice-
president. The Conseil is composed of masters and
workmen in equal numbers, exclusive of the two func-
tionaries already named, whom the Government itself
appoints, and who need not be members of the conseils
or master manufacturers or workmen. Until the revo-
lution of •1848 the law required that the number of mas-
ters should exceed that of the workmen by one, atd the
president and vies-president were chosen from among
the members. The danger of a dead lock, if the votes
,should be equal, is now obviated by the casting vote of
the. president, Put as he is nominated by the Govern-
ment; it may, perhnp , e considered that his vote gives
to capital a prepondereti •g infidel-ice in the conseil. The
members of the conseil are elected (at a public meeting)
by master manufacturers and operatives of 25 years of
age and upwards, who have been (the masters) patentes
for 5 years, or who (the workmen) have exercised their
trade for five years; The qualifications of members of the
conceit are as follows, viz.:—to have attained the age of
30, to be able to read and write, and to be qualified as an
eleet-r. The masters and workmen meet separately for
, the election of the conseil ; on the first time of taking the
'rates an absolute majority is required, but at the second
a relative one suffiees. Half the members of the conseil
retire by lot once in three years, but are re-eligible.
Eecb conseil holds a general meeting hebdomadally. The
main object of these institutions is the decision of die-
.ptites between masters and workmen, or between the
workmen themselves, bet they also exercise specific
functions of an administrative character. In the first
instance, disputes are referred to the Bureau de Conei-
lietion, which sits daily, and is, in fact, a committee of
'the General Council ; if they cermet he adju-ted there
the
.Burenu-General, or weekly meeting of the council
itself; takes cognisance of theme and the decision Gf this
body is binding in all cases where the sum or value at
issue equals or falls short of 200 f. In all other cases
the decisions of the Bureau-General are suhject to at; ap-
peal to a superior Court. The ministerial functions of
the coneilq consist in investigating complaints of in-
fraction f the laess renting to manufactures, and send-
ing, the proce,s.verbaux containing the result of their in-
quiry before the ordinary law court which takes cognis-
ance of the offence. A similar duty is imposed upon the-
cmseils in cases of appropriation by the workmen of
raw materials given out to then!, or of fraud by dyers
(feintuiiers), in reference to such materials. The .de-
ci-ione of these cases is within the jurisdiction of the
prud'hommes themselves, but they may also be
,'taken by the parties in the dispute before any
legal Wilma], and in that case the duty of
the. prurnornmes is simply ministerial. The prud'-
hommes are also charged with the registration of de-
signs, and no person can establish his claim to pro-
-perty in a design without Navin; deposited a copy of it
in the archives of the prud'hommes, and received a cer-
tificate from them stating the number of registration
and the date of the deposit. In else of a trial before the-
Proper tribunal in regard to the property in a particular
rlesign, the prud'hommes are to open the packet deposit.
ed by the contending parties and give a certificate of
priority of date. Questions as to property are now de-
cided before tribunals of commerce, and M. Mollott
thinks it'svonld be desirable that they should be decided
by the prud'hommes, as having n more practical know-
ledge of the subject. The coneeile have other duties to
discharge, including certain ones in regard to manufac-
.turers' marks, 4c., The conseils have the power of
summoning witnesses and imposing fines and imprison-
ment. Tiitt members of the eonseila serve gratuitously,
but the secretary and the huissier are paid. So much as
regards France. In Belgium, two Conseils de Prod-
'hommes were established in Ghent and Bruges by IM-
perial decrees of 1810 and 1813. A law was permed in
1842 authorising the Government to establish conseils
in 17 other (specified) towns, and in 1843 and 1845
special laws established them in two other towns. Under
these laws, however. Conseil. de Prud'hommes have been
established in only 12 towns in Belgium, and Brussels is not
among them. In 1845, 1,060 car es were decided by the Bel-
gian conseils, and in 1846, 834, most ofthem by the Bureau
Conciliation.ale There are no later statistics. The laws and
regulations under, which these conseils are conducted are
mainly the same as those established by the Imperial
'French laws and decrees. Besides the conseilir este-
b!ii;hed in Fiance-and Belgium, Napoleon I. created ten
others—at Aix, Cologne, Crevelt, Duren, Cladlaek,
Kaktenkirchen, Leyde. Montjeie, letolberg, and RoMe.
After the peace of 1815, Conseils de Prud'hommes were
established by law. at several other towns in Rhenish
Prussiia, where they are now called " Tribunaux d'lndus-
trio." All these are subject to the regulations of the
French Imperial law of 1806, and the decrees of 1809
and 1810.

DEATH F.R9M CHOLERA AT PORTS-

MOUTH.

I'ORTISMOtTIf, Monday.—The Emu (No. 74), steam-
transport, Captain Small, has caused some alarm to the
military authorities, owing to the sudden illness arid
decease of the third officer, Mr. Topper.
It appears that on Friday. evening last Mr. Tupper
was seized with sickness and vomiting. The surgeon
considered it to be nothing more than a bilious attsek ;
but on Saturday morning, the symptoms growing alarm-
ing, farther medical advice was deemed necessary, and
Dr. Scott, of Portsea was sent for. That gentleman
balling visited the patient, -found him better. Soon
after, however, Mr. Topper became worse, when Dr.
Scott.was again sent for, and he pronounced it a case of
cholera. The patient gradually got worse, and at nine
o'clock breathed his last.

The chief officer instantly reported this to the com-
mander, who ordered him to go ashore for an under-
taker. The ship's carpenter made a &hell, and the lardy
waq conveyed on shore at 2.30 am. on Sunday morn-
ing, accompanied by the chief officer and the surgeon of
the ship. They ordered it to be taken to the police-
station, but the police refused to receive it, or to have
anything to do with it, upon which the undertaker pro-
eurred the keys of a dead-house in St. Mary's Cemetery,
and there deposited the body. To-day it has been in-
terred.