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

231 Foot—Private John Warren, severely.
34th Foot—Private W. Silk. slightly.
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 FooL—Private Thomas Gannon, slightly.
88th Foot—Corporal John Riely, severely; Privates
Thomas McManus, severely; Patrick Sheehan, slightly;
Edward Farrell, severely ; Robert McKeon, Thomas
McLoughlan, and Edward Quinlan, slightly; John Lowe,
dangerously.
90th Foot—Corporals John Lenane, dangerously ; E.
Clarke, severely; Privates Mi-hael 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, Wm. M`Ginty, severely; Robert Pal-
mer, John Halls, slightly.
95th Foot—Lance•Corporal Thomas Long. slightly.
97th Foot—Mainlan, M. Maloney, J. Arkwright,
severely.

2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—Colour-Serjeant Charles
Marsh, slightly; Serjeant Joseph Cook, slightly; Privates
Joseph Cattrell, George Monk, severely ; Charles Golby,
slightly.

Royal Sappers and Miners—Serjeant Benjamin Castle-
dine, slightly; Lance-Corporal Wm. Monds, dangerously ;
Private James Colquhoune, slightly.
Royal Artillery—Gunners Wm. Poke, slightly; John
Burn, dangerously ; John Longwell, severely.
W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant-General.

Enclosure 5.

NOMINAL RETURNOF -NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES MISSING, FROM
THE 24TH TO THE 26TH AUGUST, 1855.
MISSING.
AUG. 25.
Ist Battalion Scotch Fusilier Gaards—Lance-Serjeant
James McGlachlan ; Private Patrick Martin.
W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant-General.

THE CONSEILS DE PRDD'HOMMES IN
FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

A paper published by order of the House of Commons
on the motion of Sir G-. Grey, 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 in 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 Nisrnee obtained them, and several other French
towns in 1808 and 1809. Paris, strangely enough, was
without a Conseil de Prud'hommes 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
C need 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 1848, 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 point;,
by the imperial law of the let of June, 1853. The
conseils are established by Governmental decree, on
the advice of a Chamber of Commerce, or a Chamber of
Arts and Manufactures. The number of members is not
to be less 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, and the
president and vice-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, But as he is nominated by the Govern.
ment, it may, perhaps, be considered that his vote gives
to capital a preponderating influence in the conseil. The
members of the conseil are elected (at a public meeting)
by master manufacturers and operatives of 25 years of
ago and upwards, who have been (the masters) patentes
for 5 years, or who (tbe workmen) have exercised their
trade for five years. The qualifications of members of the
conseil are as follows, viz.:—to have attained the age of
30, to be able to read and write, and to be qualified as an
elector. The masters and workmen meet separately for
the election of the conseil ; on the first time of taking the
votes an absolute majority is required, but at the second
a relative one suffices. Half the members of the conseil
retire by lot once in three years, but are re-eligible.
Each conseil holds a general meeting hebdomadally. The
main object of these institutions is the decision of dis-
putes between masters and workmen, or between the
workmen themselves, but they also exercise specific
functions of an administrative character. In the first
instance, disputes are referred to the Bureau de Conci-
liation, which sits daily, and is, in fact, a committee of
the General Council ; if they cannot be adjusted there
the Bureau-General, or weekly meeting of the council
itself, takes cognisance of them, and the decision of 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 subject to an ap-
peal to a superior Court. The ministerial functions of
the conseils consist in investigating complaints of in-
fraction of the laws relating to manufactures, and send-
ing the proces-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
eonseils in cases of appropriation by the workmen of
raw materials given out to them, or of fraud by dyers
(teinturiers), in reference to such materials. The de-
cision 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 tribunal, and in that case the duty of
the prud'hommes 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 having 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
design, 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 would be desirable that they should be decided
by the prud'hommes, as having a more practical know-
ledge of the subject. The conseils have other duties to
discharge, including certain ones in regard to manufac-
turers' marks, &c, The conseils have the power of
summoning witnesses and imposing fines and imprison-
ment. The members of the conseils serve gratuitously,
but the secretary and the huissier are pa;d. 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 passed in
1842 authorising the Government to establish conseil.
in 17 other (specified) towns, and in 1843 and 1845
special laws established them in two other towns. Under
these laws, however, Conseils de Prud'hommes have been
established in only 12 town s in Belgium, and Brussels is not
among them. In 1845, 1,060 cases were decided by the Bel-
gian conseils, and in 1846, 834, most ofthem by the Bureau
de Conciliation. 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 conseils esta-
blished in France and Belgium, Napoleon I. created ten
others—at Aix, Cologne, Crevelt, Duren, Cladback,
Kaldenkirchen, Leyde, Montjoie, Stolberg, and Rome.
After the peace of 1815, Conseils de Prud'hommes were
established by law at several other towns in Rhenish
Prussia, where they are now called " Tribuuaux d'lndus-
trie." All these are subject to the regulations of the
French Imperial law of 1806, and the decrees of 1809
and 1810.

DEATH FROM CHOLERA AT PORTS-

MOUTH.

PORTSMOUTH, Monday.—The Emu (No. 74), steam-
transport, Captain Small, has caused some alarm to the
military authorities, owing to the sudden illness and
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 attack ;
but on Saturday morning, the symptoms growing alarm-
ing, further medical advice was deemed necessary, and
Dr. Scott, of Portsea was sent for. That gentleman
hailing visited the patient, found him better. Soon
after, however, Mr. Tupper 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 shell, and the body
was conveyed on shore at 2.30 a.m. 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-
curred the keys of a dead-house in St. Mary's Cemetery,
and there deposited the body. To-day it has been in-
terred.