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

23d Foot—Private John Warren, severely.
nth Foot—Private W Silk. slhrlitly.
39. h Foot—Private Josepnl3rwArt,
41,4 Foot —Privata 'Phorrrts Corry, 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
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 Michael Christophel
Boyle, Edward Connell, Patrick Riley, Samuel Oxley
Dennis Lynch, John Fair, severely ; John Gall, slightly ;
Patrick M`Donll,l, James Clements, Patrick M'Namara,
Francis Cummings, Win. M.`Gitity, severely; Robert Pal-
mer, John Aall=, slightly.
95th Foot—Lance-Corporal Thomas Long, slightly.
97th Foot —M`liinlan, M. Maloney, J. Arkwright,
severely.

2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—Colour-Sedeant Chtsri
Marsh, slightly; Serjeatit lseph Cook, slightly; Privat,
Joseph Cattrell, George Monk, severely; Charles Goa);
slightly.

hoial Sapperi and Miners—Serjeant Benjamin Cast '•
dine, slightly; Laance•Corporal Wm. Monds, dangerously ;
Private James Colquhoune, slightly.
Royal Artillery—Gunners Win. Poke, slightly; John
Burn, dangerously ; John Longwell, severely.
W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant-General.

Enclosure 5.
NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES MISSING, FROM
THE 2ITH TO THE 26rn AUGUST, 1835.
MISSING.
AUG. 25.
lat Battalion Scotch Fusilier Guards —Lance-Serjeant
James McGlachlan ; Private Patrick Martin.
W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant• General.

THE CONSEILS DE PRE'D'HOMMES IN
FRANCE .ANT) 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 conceits dates from the
year 1806, when the great Napoleon established a "Con-
ceit 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 Nimes obtained them, and several other Frencl,
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 branche,
of manufacture there carried on ; but iii that year or..
Conseil ee Prud'hernmes was established there, and in
1847 three more. The number of conceits in France it,
1849—a year after the downfall of the dynasty of Lou's
Philippe—amounted to 74, and their number is at l.r
sent about the same. At the revolution of 1848, wh:n
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,
by the imperial law of the Ist of June, 1853. The
colleens are established by Governmental decree, on
the advice of a Chamber rif 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 colleens
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 vier-president were chosen from among
the members. The danger of a deadlock, if the votes
should be equal, is now ol.viated by the casting vote el
the president, But as he is nominated by the Govern-
ment, it may, perhaps, he considered that his vote gives
to capital a preponderating iefistence in the conseil. The
members of the conseil are elected (at a public meeting)
by master manufacturers and operatives of 25 years . A
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
nonseil are as follows, viz. :—to have attained the age of
30, to be able to read and write, and to he qualified as no
elector. The masters and workmen meet separately for
the election of the conseil ; on the first time of taking the
votes an absolute msjority is required, but at the second
a relative one suffices. Half the members (.f the contest'
retire by lot once in three years, but are re-eligible.
Each conseil'holde a general meeting hebdomadally. Tne
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 cann,A 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 equ-als or falls short of 200 f. In all other cases
the decisions of the Bureau-General are suject to an ap-
peal to a superior Court. The ministerial functions of
the cow/ells consist in investigating complaints of in-
fraction t f 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
conseils 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 thy 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 print%
hommes are also cLarged with the registration of de-
=igns-, and no person can establish his claim to pro-
perty in a design with .ut, having deposited a copy of it
le tire archives ef the mul'hontrnes, and received a cer-
tificate from them . stating the number of registratim,
and the date of the deposit. In c .se of a trial before the
, .. . .

proper tribunal in regarl io the property in a particular
design, the prud'horomes 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-
&AM befora tribunals of commerce, tvid M. Mollott
ihinka it would be desirable that they should be decided
by the prud'homrnes, as hiving a more practical know-
ledge of the subject. The conseils have other duties to
list:barge, including certain ones in regard to manufac-
turers' marks, &c. The conseils have the power of
suounoni-g witnesses and imposing fines and imprison-
ment. Tire members of the conserls serve gratuitously,
hut the secretary and the huissie: are pa'cl. Sa much as
regards Fiance. In Bel Orin, two Cons. sde Prud-
'h were established m Ghent and Bruges by Im-
perial decrees of 1810 a,el 1813. A !akv was passed in
1842 authorising Govern.nent to e‘tablish conseils
in 17 other (specified) towns, and in 1843 and 1845
special laws established them in two other towns. -Limier
these laws, however. Gouserl ik Prird'hommes have been

e,tahlisth ed in only 12 towns in Belgium, and Brusselsi;ioq
among them. In 1845, 1,060 cues were decided by the Bel-
ian and in 1846, 834, most of them 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 t'aose established by the Imperial
French laws and -decrecs. Besides the conseils esta-
blished in France and Belgium, Napoleon L created ten

others—at Aix, Cologre, Crewelt, Duren, Clad back,
Kaldenkirchen, Leyde, Mont joie, Stolber4 and Rome.
After the peace of 1815, Cor.scil4 de Prud'hommes were
established by law at several other towns in Rhenish
Prussia, where they are now called " Tribuilaux d'lnilus-
trie." All these are subject to the regulations of the
French Imperial law of 1809, and the decrees of 1809
and 1810.

DEATH FROM CHOT,ERA AT PORTS-

MOUTH.

PORTSMOUTH, Monday.—The Ernu (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. Tupper.
It appears that on Friday.evening last Mr. Topper
was seizad 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 F'ortsea was sent for. That gentleman
i;auing 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 in tautly reported this to the chin-
mender, who ordered him. to go ashore for an under.
taker. The ship's carpi-rater 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 oral-red it to be taken to the police-
station, but the police iefw.red to receive it, or to have
anything to do with it, upon which the undertaker pro-
curredthe keys of a dead-house in St. Mary's Cemetery,
awl there dtptisited the body. To-day it has been in-
terred.