The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

JANUARY 23, 1852.

SWITZERLAND.

The Radicals of the Canton of Berne have at last
come to an agreement to demand that the present
Government, which is Conservative, shall be dis-
missed, and be replaced by a Radical one. As the
Radicals are in the majority, this demand is not con-
trary to the Constitution. The Government was
elected for four years, only two of which have
expired.

GREECE.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE KING.

Accounts from Athens, received at Frankfort on
the 17th, announce that the King of GREECE has be-
come seriously ill.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY.

THE ORLEANS FAMILY CANNOT
HOLD PROPERTY IN FRANCE,

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT )
PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.
De Morny and Fould leave the Ministry, and are
replaced by De Persigny, Abbattucci, and Binault.
De Maupas is gazetted as Minister of Police.
Another new Ministry, named Ministry of State,
is created, and occupied by Casablanca.
A decree is promulgated which enacts that the
members of the Orleans family, their husbands and
consorts, and descendants, cannot possess any pro-
perty (moveable or immoveable) in France. They
are bound to sell them within the year, and in default
they will be sold by the domain. Another decree
cancels the donation made by Louis Philippe on the
7th August to his children, and enacts that their pro-
perties, of about two hundred millions of francs, shall
be employed as follows :

Ten millions to societies of secours mutuels. Ten
millions to the improvement of the lodgings for the
working classes. Ten millions to the establishment
of a credit foncier. Five millions to a benefit fund
for the poorer clergy. All the officers, sub-officers,
and soldiers in active service will receive, according
to their rank in the Legion of Honour. The legion-
ary, 250 f. ; the officers, 500 f.; commanders, I,ooof. ;
grand officers, 2,000 f.; grand crosses, 3,000 f.
A national palace will serve for an establishment for
the education of orphans and families whose heads
have obtained a military medal, which entitles them
to a pension for life of 100 f.
The palace of Saverne will serve as an asylum to
the widows of high functionaries, civil as well as mili-
tary, who have died in the service of the state, and the
state is charged with payment of their debts.
Civil list of last reign [sic]. _ _

The dowry of 300,000 E granted to the Duchess 01
Orleans is maintained.

The President renounces all claims respecting con.
fiscations pronounced in 1814 and 1815 against 80.
naparte families.

The decrees are countersigned by the Minister 01
State Cassabianca.—Daily News.

WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, 10.30 A M.

The Clyde, Captain Moss, has just arrived; Admi-
ralty agent, Lieutenant Percival, R.N. Her dates
are—Jamaica, Dec. 30; Demerara, 27; Trinidad, 29.
Amongst hi-r cargo is specie to the value of one
million three hundred and fifty-three thousand four
hundred and forty-six dollars on merchants' account.
It would appear from the last accounts from
Yucatan that there was a temporary cessation of hos-
tilities between the Indians and the Yucatans, and
that the town of Bacalar still continues in the pos-
session of the latter.
From Demerara we learn that the election for
Essequibo has terminated in the triumphant return
of the Government candidate.

On the 30th of December a public meeting was to
take place in George Town to co-operate with the
Anti-Slavery Society in London, in making two
appeals, one to the British Parliament, the other to
the British Government.

During the last fortnight the weather has been
delightful. The present year's crop will considerably
exceed that of 1850.

From New Granada we learn that slavery was to
be abolished throughout the 1t public on the Ist of
J anuary.
According to Jamaica newspaper accounts the
weather had changed, and it was hoped that cholera
would soon disappear. It was still, however, very
virulent in some places ; the small pox is also scouring
some parts of the island. A public meeting had
taken place at Kingston to make arrangement 3 for
the establishment of a steam-packet communication
between Jamaica and the Spanish main.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCROOL.—Last night the
annual ball on behalf of this benevolent institution was held
at the London Tavern. The licensed victuallers are a nume-
rous and influential fraternity. Their society was esta-
blished in 1791, incorporated by Royal charter in 1836, and
now consists of about 3,200 members. They are now re-
lieving above 300 persons, at an expense of nearly 4,3001.
per annum. Upwards of 140 children are being maintained
and educated in their school, and 1,241 children have been
admitted into the institution since its establishment. Up-
wards of 1,100 ladies and gentlemen were present at the
ball, and the dancing was kept up until a late hour. In
the course of the evening, a handsome silver snuff-box was
presented by Mr. Findley, the governor of the coporation,
to Mr. Frampton, in testimony of his gratuitous services as
arbiter-elfgantiarum for seven years at the annual balls of
the society.

THE ROYAL WEST INDIA MAIL STEAM SHIP
ORINOOO.—This splendid new steam-ship (sister vessel of
the ill-fated Amazon) was to have left her moorings at
Blackwall yesterday afternoon, and to have proceeded down
the river, on her way to Southampton, to take up her sta-
tion on the new line of route to Chagres, &c. Her steam
was got up, and Captain Nelson, Captain Chapple, and
other officials of the Royal West India Mail Company, were
on board to witness the result of her first trip. After some
delay, however, it was announced that she would not pro-
ceed on that day. The reason for the detention we couln not
learn. Her expected departure drew a large crowd of
persons on the Blackwell Pier. She is a timber vessel, and
in size, power, and form of build is much like the unfortu-
nate Amazon. It is more than probable that she will not
leave the Thames until to-morrow (Saturday).

DEATH OF SERGEANT HEATH.—Yesterday at the
sitting of the Bloomsbury County Court, Portland-road, a
communication was made to the Judge pro rem. C. E. Pol-
lock, Esq., that Mr. Sergeant Heath, father of the presiding
Judge thereof (Mr. D. D. Heath) had died at his residence
No. 34, Montague-place, Russell-square, on the previous
afternoon. The deceased having become an admitted mem-
ber of the Inner Temple commenced practice in the Court of
Common Pleas, from whence he was appointed as the
deputy-judge under Mr. Sergeant Dubois, deceased, at the
County Court of Middlesex, Kingsgate-street. On the
abolition of that court Mr. Sergeant Heath's son was inftal-
led as a Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court in conjunc-
tion with Mr. Dubois. The deceased sergeant died sur-
rounded by his friends after an illness of not long duration in
the 74th year of hut agA.

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ADULTERATED PEPPER.-00 Wednesday the fol-
lowing fines were inflicted by the Court of Inland Revenue
upon grocers found in possession of adulterated pepper:-
501. upon John Scott, 15, Gray's Inn-lane; 10/., J. S. Chad-
well, Great Suffolk-street, Southwark; Si., Henry Smith,
23, Bermondsey-street; John Reynals, Union-street, South-
wark; and Thomas Hart, of the same locality.
Loss OF THE AmAzovr.—We understand that it is
intended to hold an official inquiry into the loss of the
Amazon under the powers given to the Board of Trade by the
Steam Navigation Act of last session. The inquiry will
begin at twelve o'clock on Monday next, at the Council
Chamber, Whitehall, and will be conducted by Captain
Beechey, R.N., and Captain Walker, H.C.S., both members
of the naval department of the Board of Trade.
REPRESENTATION OF NoTTINGHAM.—AII address.
from Mr. Thom Gbrne, ex-M.P. for the borough of
Nottingham, hasas is o
been distributed amongst the electors of
that town. The following is the most important part of
it :—" At the last dissolution I was one of your representa-
tives, but at the election which followed you thought fit to
elect Mr. Feargus O'Connor in my stead. I have such un-
limited respect for the uncontrolled action of any consti-
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tuency that I neither felt at the time, nor have I since felt,
that I had any right to complain. But as I [entertain the
conscientious belief that I never, to the best of my jud
inent, acted, as your representative, inconsistently with any
principle which I had professed to you, and that I never,
ex-
cept under the pressure of severe illness (which it has pleased
God to remove), neglected either my general duties as a
Member of Parliament, or any business in which you were
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issued a notice that the
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MR. JUSTICE PATTESON. It is expected that Mr.
Justice Patteson will resign soon after the present Term,
ending on Saturday week. The Learned Judge is in the list
of the circuits just fixed, but it is a question whether he will
proceed on circuit. it is, however, certain that the present
is the last terra in,
ithich he will grace the judicial bench with
11/4 presence.