The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.
The necessary repairs and improvements in the
Legislative Chamber are nearly terminated.
A great change in the personnel of the comsulates,
an increase in the number of pests, and the re-esta-
blishment of the salaries on the footing previous to
1848, have been announced. The total of the ex-
penses thus occasioned is 250,000 f. The Independanee
of Brussels. states that the following appointments
have been already made
:--
"M. de Lantivy is to be consul at Dublin, and M. Iluet
at' Lisbon; M. Cavel, formerly secretary to M. de Per-
signy, has been nominated to Civita-Vecehia with 10,000 f;
M. Maricourt is to go to Stettin with 8,000 f.; M. Gil-
bert des Voieons is to remain definitively at Ode44a,chis
salary 15 15,000 f.; M. Bruant, who was only consulcir
agent at Ostend, has been named consul; an ex-agent,
who has been consul at Dantzlc, is to go to Mentz, with
12,000 f.; M. Barbet do Joey is to leave Stettin for Tani-
pion; this consulate was suppressed in 1848, but the im-
portance of French commerce in Mexico requires its
re establishment; the salary will probably be fixed
at 25,000 f. M. Guillonet is to go to Port Maurice;
M. Galloni d'lstria, formerly at Venice, to Opole();
M. Gardera to Galatz, a post re-established; a con•
sulate has been created at Diedda, and it has been
confided to M. nocbet d'lleficourt, the learned tra-
vel r in Egypt and Abyssinia; the consulate of
Cobija, in tha Pacific Ocean, founded by M. Guizot.
has been re-established, acd M. Darasse is appointed
to it; M. Challaye has been named consul at Erzeroutn,
in Armenia; M. Gcepp is to go to Newcastle, with
20,0001. and M. Hitler, heretofore of Dublin, to Liver-
pool, with the same salary; M. Gaillard, who has been
at Uverpool, is to become consul-general at Ilsvunnah
with 35,0001
salary; M. Limperani is to go to Carmine
with 10,0001.; M. Vallat, an item-consul, at St. Peters-
burgh, and M. Maubuissin to Riga, salary 10,0001.; M.
Montigny, formerly chancellor of the embassy at Naples,
to Belgrade, with 12,000 E; M. Flury is to give up
the consulate of Cadiz to M. de Gricourt, of Santander;
and is to go to Naples, a consulate of new creation; M.
Pianelli is to go to Pernambuco, salary 15,000 E; M.
Cazstte to Valparaiso, salary 15,000 f.; M. Giraudot to
Guayaquil, a new post; M. Blanchard to Rio Janeiro;
M. Livio to Bremen, a re-established post; M. Saint
Amand to Bagdad; M. Lombard to Panama, salary
18,000 f.; and, finally, M. Pierre Bonaparte is to become
consul at Charlestown, in the United States, in the
room of M. de Choiseul, and his salary is to be 15,000 f."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 22.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
THE TRUSTEES OF DUNDEE HARBOUR V. DOUGALL,
The LORD CHANCELLOR delivered judgment at some
length, dismissing the appeal, but altering the terms
of the interlocutories of the Court below, so as not to
confirm any right on the part of the respondents to levy

COURT OF CHANCERY, March 22.
(Before the LORDS JUSTICES.)
SENT v. JACESOI.I.
In this case (the arguments in which had not con-
chided when our report left),
The Lord Justice KNIGHT BRUCE said—Whether
upon the crastion of right or the question of remedy,
the law of Belgium or the law or England is regarded,
this suit seems to us to bell) founded. According to the
law of Belgium the plaintiff is incompetent to sue fur
the purpose for which he has filed this bill, and by the
law of England he has shown no case for suing the
directors in the manner ho has done even if some suit be
proper. The pleadings and evidence seem to us to show
that in the year 1847, more than a }Ear before the plain•
tiff filed his bill, en-account had beet stated fuel settled
between the committee of mauagement in Belgium, who
were the authorised agents of the company, and Jackson
and Graham, which account, if fairly stated, must be
considered destructive of the plaintiff's case. It appears
to us to have been fairly stated and settled, that is, every
fact was stated without suppression, and the account so
come to and stated was approved by the general meeting,
who were, in our opinion, competent to do so. If, pos-
sibly, on account of the existing trusteeship, if there was
one, the confirmation by the committee might have been
insufficient, there mie:t still be taken to have been a
sufficient affirmance by the general meeting. There is,
probably, more than one other ground fatal to this case,
but enough has been said to show that this petition of
appeal must be dismi6se3 with costs.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exeter, March 20.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice TALrouan.)
William Farrien was indicted LI. having forged as in-
dorsement tip a promissory note with intent to defraud
the National Provincial Bank at Southmolton on the
'2Bth•' March last.
Mr. Phinn was counsel for the prosecution; Mr. Cox
defended the prisoner.
The facts of thb case were very simple, but rather a
nice question of law was raised upon them. It appeared
that the prisoner was a member of a society holden at
Soutbmoiton, called the "Rechabites." They are tee-
totallers, and are also a benevolent society, Some time
in the yea: 1317 the society deposited a BUM of 121. in
the National Provincial Bank of England at Southmol-
ton, in the names of Charles Loek and Gorge Milton,
and received in return a document in the fAlowing
form:—

-"National Provincial Bank of England.
1 :41: " &uthmllton, Dec. 16, 1347.
.4 anticived from Messrs. Charles Lock and George
Milton 121., to be accounted for on demand.

"t.ir tho Nationul Provincili Bulk of Englawl.

•
:" rattered." " W. H. TAPP."
This, was dopositcli in the box of the society; and at a
meeti4N; in Ft-bruary, 1831, the document was handed
about,. and supposcit to be pat buck again into the box.
Tite prisoner was present at that meeting. Oa the 2iltia
of March, 1931, the prisoner went to toe National Pro-
vincial Dank, and presented the dof.mment and demanded
the money. At that time it here the indorsement of
Charles- Lock, who had endorsed the note ,rane time
before, as Ito was going away to America. The bankers
refused to pav thecanaatutiths.uktlite.entloreement of Mil-
ton. said?litenprisoncr. " am Milton," and
wrote the name et Naar ;e Milton on the note. He then
got-tbe motley, aria, .b; mr: a.tilor, went away to sea.
He subsecpsentir3teturned, and was. apprehended and
committed for trial:- Mittou had rnt.givea any autholity
to him to sign his name, Tier weS it- known for anin'i-3:time
after the men?), Was &Stabled that the note was not safe
in the box of the vOciety. For th defence, it was con-
tended thas the document in.ciA4a was not a promis-
sory note, or, if it were, th.ir, rt,gaired a stamp. To
this it was argued that, though not in terms, yet in etf.:,ct
it Ward a protateacry mop, and that, as a,..ffainst the Crown,
the objefetioh,L4 to its having no stamp
Mr. Justice TALFSgRIS said that the inclination of his
mind was that in form the document did amount' to a
promissory note, but that he h,.d considerable doubt
whether it was admitsable without a stamp. However,
the better course-- wenidlee t•S let the ease go to the
jury, and then he weeny, •if necryss-lry, reserve the point
for the consideration of the Court fair Crown cases re-
served.

Mr. Cox then addressed the jury fir the prisoner, and
Mr. Justice TALF%JUED haring summed up, the jury
found the prusener -Gui ty.
r. Justice TALFOUILD then said he should respite
of the
the U
jdtuent, and reserve the point I 4 the comideration
, urt
Prisonpr was then indicted for a larceny of the
same dtmurnent to whichhe pleaded and was sen-
tenced to si: he
itepriEotitn,:j.