The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-29 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—Business has been inactive, and prices have not
varied to any important extent. A considerable quantity is
Tuesday
announced for public sale on next.
SUGAR.—The market has retnamed dull, although prices
generally are well supported. In the refined maiket, how-
ever, quotations exhibit less firmness.
COFFEB.—There has been a moderato demand for
colonial descriptions, and prices have remained tolerably
steady.
Rica.—A fair amount of business has been done without
any material alteration to quote in values.
TALLOW.—Tho market bee continued depressed in all
penni
pennons. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40s, and last three
months' delivery 43s Gd per cwt.

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

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LONDO:4, April 21—Wind this day at noon—North.
Westerly ; moderate breezo and flue weather, but a little
cloudy.
Oar FALMOUTH, April 29.—Wind E.—Arrived—Re-
nown, from Calcutta.
CAEDIFF, April 'a—Wind W.—Arrived—Mary Meg.
(it,lene, from Santander.
CLYDE, April 27.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—City of Foe-
ohow, for Bombay—Excelsior, screw steamer, for Antwerp
--British Queen, for Quebec.
NEWPOILT, April 28.—Wind S.E.--Sailed—Greenook,
for Cuba.
SWANSEA, kril 27.—Wind E.— Sailed—Northumber-
land, for Singlporn.

POST• OFFICE PACKET SEILVICE.—A return of tlit
estimate for this department for tho year 1861.5 has just
been issued. The whole sum reqtsCted to be voted is
£860,276. This amount shows a decrease of £96,612 upon
the estimates for 1863.4.
The Lord Bishop of London has licensed the
Rev. William Charles llowell, M.A., to be Chaplain to the
British residents at Havre. Mr. Howell was for many
years curate of tho parish churen of Tottenham, Middlesex,
and recently curate in sole charge of the parish of St.
George-in-the-Dist,

Military Ends and Moral Means. By Colonel
J. J. Graham, author of " The Art of War." One
Vol. Pp. 464. Smith, Elder, and Co.
Colonel Graham has a true appreciation of the
real dignity of calling. He is animated by a
genuine esprit•de-corps, and would fain have every
soldier, from the highest to the lowest, regarded
with respect by the rest of the community; and,
above all, he would have every soldier regard his
chosen profession with feelings of reverence and
affection. Especially does the Colonel quarrel with
the " theory of enlistment" as put forth by many of
those who have, given their evidence before the
Recruiting Commission, and who impute the young
recruit's enlistment to the lowest motives. The
pros and eons of both sides of the question ere very
considcrt d by the Colonel, who sums !'3
his evidence with the declaration that " the pro-
fession of a soldier is a noble one, at d, as a rule, it
is desirable that every man should get credit for
entering it from noble and worthy motives, and
his ciscipline should be regulated accordingly
until a change of system is called for by Lis own
misconduct." "Ae the vigour and beauty of the
tree in the natural world depend on the soundness
of the roots, so the efficiency and morale of an army
correspond with the ietrinsio moral and physical
standard of the individual members composing its
ranks." The Colonel's very praiseivorthy object in
publishing this most excellent and interesting
volume is to direct the practical attention of all who
have the Soldier's interest at heart to the importance
of that moral element by which he, as well as every
other thinking being, is so much influenced. The
soldier is not to be regarded as a machine but as a
man, in proof of which in how many instances have
not battles been won by moral influence when, esti-
mated by the laws of physical force, they wire
hopeless! Such instances abound in the various
historical references with which the work is illus•
trated. Under the heading, " Mural Influence,"
the wonderful power exercised by some commanders
is particularly dwelt upon. Sir Walter Scott, in
writing on the influence of the Ch: of over his
Soldiers, exclaims—
"They love a captain to obey,
Boisterous as March and frank as May,
Ever the first to scale a tower,
As venturous in a lady's bower,
Such valiant chief shall lead his host
From India's fire to Zembla's frost."
This volume, so honourable to its author and his
profession, is very appropriately dedicated (with
special permission) to the Dake of Cambridge,
Commanding•in•Chief, who has in so many in-
stances evidenced his personal anxiety to uphold
the dignity and ameliorate the condition of the Sol-
dier. Colonel Graham hes evidently bestowed
much time and labour upon his task, which has
to him been a labour of love. He has collected
evidence and information from very nume-
rous and most various sources in reference to pen
and present times and to the military arrangements
of our own and other countries. His work will well I
repay a careful perusal, and is admirably calculated
to aid the cause which is so dear to his soldier-heart.

The Stream of Life on our Globe. By J. L. Milton,
M.R.C.S. One Vol. pp. 614. Hard wicke.

At first sight the reader is disptlsed to regard
with dismay a work which professes to propound
to him " the archives, traditions, and laws of the
stream of life on our Globe, as revealed by modern
discoveries in geology, and palrentology," &a., but
on a closer investigation we find that Mr. Milton
has arranged his very imposing materials
with such a careful and happy discrimination
that tho result of Ws labours affords us a
very interesting m itter of contemplation. Be-
ginning almost before the beginning, with
the amazing revelations of Geology we find now
cause (as may readily be found every day) to mar-
vel over " the things of heaven and earth that are
undreamt of in our philosophy." Here for example
is a startling picture of

ENGLAND IN EARLY DAYS.
The mind finds it difficult to realize the idea that a coun-
try so well tilled and drained as England, and subjected to
the plough as far back as authentic history goes, was once
a steaming morass covered with the rank tropical vegeta-
tion of the tree-fern groves, its awful silence broken only by
the hum of the ahardy bootie, the rush of the hideous flying
lizards through lofty woods of ferns and reeds, or th^ tramp
of the giant iguanodons over the plashy wolds. Imagina-
tion left to itself could scarcely have indulged in so wild a
flight as to picture an era when palm-trees waved in Kent
and Hampshire, and the plains of Cumnor were the coral
reefs of some primeval lagoon ; when the tiger and hyena
lurked in the thickets of Kirkdale and the trumpeting of
the groat northern elephant was heard on the moors of
Yorkshire and the downs of Brighton ; when the nautilus
spread its sail to the breeze or plied its busy oars in the
waters of the Effra; while the bison fed on Cromer plains,
and the sullen river-horse and:rhinoceros browsed by the
Thames and the Avbn, or lay down to die by the Ouse and
the Aire.

Yet all these things were. The hammer of the geologist
has conjured up many a picture of the farthest eld far more
weird and wondrous than over was fabled, and though of
times far beyond the ken of history, yet supported on proofs
for which we vainly hunt in tradition. The historian only
seeks to trace back the annals of our island to the days
when it was first peopled by painted savages, living in wig•
wants like the red Indian or beaver, and hunting with the
rude bow and flint-headed arrow; the geologist recalls the
times when it was the home of the dragon, tho turtle, and
the iguanodon.
From the revelations of Geology wo pass on to the
eonsideration of the Races of Man, and on this sub-
ject Mr. Milton affirms that a mixed race can never
endure, that in process of time the original stock
predominates. In a kindred spirit Mr. Disraeli,
when eloquently dilating upon the greatness of the
Ciucasian race, remarked that "other inferior races
fall by that law of Nature which is fetal to ours."
Mr. Milton declares that "the Englishman is not
the Saxon, he lived here ages before the Saxon was
known." Very interest kg is the concluding por-
tion of this book where the individual man becomes
the subject of our study. In the chapter on men of
genius, the writer distinctly contradicts the theory
that

"Groat wit to madness nearly is allied."

On the contrary, he affirms that it is " weak-minded
people who generally go mad." With regard to '
men of genius, he observes, " the temple of the soul
may be a little strained and wrung, but it is made
of first rate material. The partition between wit
and craziness may be thin, but it is as strong for
all practical purposes as sevenfold brass." Physical
as well us intellectual giants also comes under our
acrutiny,'and we read among other curious anecdotes,
a record of Mr. Bright of Malden, a greater man
than Daniel Lambert himself, for, in the said Mr.
13riglit'a waistcoat, five men of ordinary size were
buttoned without straining a stitch 1 Appalling
although the title-page unquestionably is Mr.
Milton's beol: is full of interest and anecdote. It
is also full of in formation on themes more important
than the giants above-mentioned.

Garibaldi and Italian Unity: By Lieut.-Colonel
Chambers. One Vol., pp. 328. Smith, Elder,

and Co.

. .
Garibaldi bring a subject of peculiar interest at
the present moment, Colonel Chambers' work is
certainly well timed. Believing, "from informa-
tion obtained during a residence in Italy, that there
was much unknown respecting General Garibaldi,
particularly with regard to the part he took in the
transactions that led to the disastrous affair of As-
prornonte," the writer of this volume has endeav-
oured to give an account of Gdribaldi's doings be-
tween the spring of 1859 and the close of 1863.
"No previous history comes down later than the
early part of the year 1861." Some portion of the
contents of this volume have already appeared in
the public press, but they are bete accompanied by
other anecdotes and rumours, with which Colonel
Chambers has become acquainted in hie repeated
travels on the Contir sat.

Corpulence : its Diminution and Cure.
The first edition of Dr. Harvey's pamphlet having
sold very rapidly, the learned author has been in-
duced to publish a second and revised issue to meet
the great demand that at present exists for the
work. The Doctor enters thoroughly into the
subject, and, after reciting the causes of corpulence,
says, " Women, unfortunately, aro more subject to
it than men, and they especially should take Care
to guard against embonpoint ; for it is not an un-
I common occurrence to see the handsome, elegant

The Achilles got up steam at an early hour yesterday
morning, and by 9 o'clock the whole of the officials under
whose supervision the trials were to ho made were on board,
including Vico-Admiral Sir C. Talbot, K.C.8., Captain W.
K. Hall, C. 8., of the Cumberland, 70, guardehip of the
Steam Reserve : Mr T. Baker, chief engineer at Chatham
dockyard; Mr W. Rumble, principal inspector of machi-
nery afloat; Mr Thornton, and Mr Moore, principal master
shipwrights at Chatham, under whose sup( rintendence the
Achille. has been built; Captain John Lord Hay, C. 13.,
who is to command the Achilles, and other officers. Tho
frigate was navigated from the Folly Point to the Nero by
Mr W. Blakey, second master, and Queen's pilot at Chat-
ham,)and was afterwards handed over to Mr Hilyard,
master, of the Cumberland, 70, who had charge of the ves-
sel during her trial of speed. The engines were in charge
of Mr Wigzell, from the establishment of Messrs Penn and
Sons, Greenwich, the manufacturers. Just before the
frigate started Admiral Drummond, one of the Lords of the
Admiralty, and Admiral Famthawe came on board. After
•ome slight delay in weighing the anchor by the auxiliary
40 horse power engine, it was at length stowed away in its
place, and the vessel's head was laid for the trial ground.
At this time the Achilles was drawing 22ft 7in forward and
231 t 9in aft, with her screw immersed 41t. The total dis-
placement of the frigate was calculated to be 9,500 tons,
When fairly under way the height of the lower portion of
her gun ports from the water was found to be 12ft amidships.
The wind at this time was blowing moderately from the
eastward, with a force of 3, and everything was favourable
for the trial. The quantity of coals on board was 130 tons;
cables and other stores, 50 tons ; water, crew, &c., 400 tons.
By 12 n.m. the Maplin Sands were reached, and the Achilles
was at once plre•,d on the mile for the purpose of going
through the most. important portion of her day's duty. At
this time the boilers were emitting an abundance of steam,
the vessel was in excellent trim, the water smooth, and
everything in the ship's fe.vour. Six runs were first made
at full speed, with the following results :
Speed Revolutions Pressure
Run. Time, knots. of engines. of steam. Vacuum.
1 4m 45s 12.632 46 26 23
2 3m 42a 16.216 46 25 25
3 4m 51s 12•37 l 464 2(4 251
4 3m 40a 16.363 47 26 25
5 4m 591 12.456 47 26 25
6 3m 43s 16.143 46} 28 25

The first means of the above figures gives the average
speed as 14.424. 14.293, 14.367, 14.409, and 14.299 knots ;
and the second moans 14358, 14.330, 14385, and 14354
knots, the mean of means or true speed of the ship, being
14.357 knots, or upwards of 16 statute miles per hour.
Taking those figuros, it will be seen that the Admirai:y
have every reason to be proud of the first of the iron ships
built at either of the dockyards, as sho has proved
herself to be the fastest of our ironclads now afloat.
The above figures, however, only show what speed the
Achilles has attained at her light draught, but form a very
fair criterion of what she will do at her deep-soa draught,
when it may bo safely affirmed that she will still further
surpass every other vessel dint in her steaming qualities.
At the trial yesterday two causes operated to prevent a
greater speed being attained—namely, the fact that the
blades of Ler mew were upwards of a font out of,tho water,
and ales that the bottom of the frigate was foul from the
length of time sho has been Ding in the Medway. When
thelattor cause has boon removed, and the screw immersed
to the required depth with the vessel at her deep-sea
draught, thertiis little doubt that the Achilles will attain a
speed of 16 knots per hour, in which case she will be the
fastest vessel belonging to the Royal Navy. During Idle
tt ial yesterday at full power the frigate carried a rather for-
midable wave under horbow, but from her form of construc-
tion this was thrown off, and offered no impediment to the
ship's progress through the water. The water thrown up in
her wake was very considerable, owing to the circumstance
of the screw not being sufficiently immersed. At the close
of the full-boiler trials the vessel's head was laid for the
Margate-road, while five of the boilers were cut off to
allow of her being tried at her half-boiler power. This ac-
complished, the frigate's head wan again laid for the Maplin
Sands, when two runs were taken over the mile, with the
following results :—First run—time, 5 min, 39 sec. 1
speed, 10.619 knots ; revolutions of screw, 38 ; pressure of
steam, 251 b ; vacuum, 276. Second run—time, 4
min. 34 sec.; speed, 13.138 knots ; revolutions, 37 ;
pressure of steam, 23}1b. ; vacuum, 27i. The mean epeod at
half-boiler power wan 11.878 knots per hour, the Achilles
thus maintaining her high character when tried under half-
boiler power. During the time she was on her trial the
engines worked with wonderful smoothness, steadiness, and
regalarity, Although in a wooden vessel the movement of
such enormous engines would have caused the greatest
vibration, in the Achilles their action was scarcely percep-
tible. During the time the frigate was tutning to make
her third run over the mile she came into collision with a
brig which was lying across her bows, when the frigate's
starboard quarter caught the bow of the brig and carried
away her bowsprit, besides causing some other damage.
The Achilles is steered by the old gun-room tiller, which
has been again adopted by the Admiralty in consequence of
the absence of the screw-well hitherto found on board our
largo screw steamers. This gives an enormous advantage
in steering a vessel of the vast size and tonnage of the
Achilles, and this was apparent during the trials yesterday,
when the vessel answered her helm as sensitively as a cut-
ter. It is evident, however, that much remains to be done
in the mode of steering our largo vessels of war, as yester-
day it required 16 men to bring the helm over either to port
or starboard. Although we continue to construct vessels of
the sico of the Achilles and Warrior, yet no improvements
appear to have been made to increase their steering powers,
the same method being practically in use which was em-
ployed half a century ago. At the close of the speed trials
some experiments were made in turning the circles and half
circles with the following results :—The approximate area
of the rudder immersed in the water was 136 ft ; the
time occupied in getting up the rudder with eight mon at
the wheel was, to starboard, 1 min 4.5 sect, to port, 1 min
50 sees; turns of wheel, to starboard, 3}, to port, 31. The
time occupied in making the half-circle at full boiler power
was to starboard, 3 min 25 secs, to port, 4 min 40 secs; the
revolutions of emdnes were 96. The time occupied in mak-

ing complete circle at half boiler power, with 15 men at the
wheel, was 6 min 15 secs, and the time occupied in getting
up the wheel 2 min 30 secs. The diameter of circle was 900
yards, as calculated by the ingenious invention of Mr,
Martin, assistant master shipwright, by which the diameter
of all circles can be most accurately measured at sea. This
diameter is considered a fair one for the size of a vcaaol of
the Achilles class.
The average temperature during the trial was—On deck,
49 ,dog; in engine-room, forepart, 98 dog; middle part,
107 deg; and aft, 102 deg; forward stoke-hole, forepart,
80 deg, middle 92 deg, and after part 98 deg; after stoke-
hole, fore part 76 deg, middle 102 deg, and after part 96 deg.
By direction of the Admiralty, Mr Gleborne's patent elec-
tric telegraph has been fitted on board the Achilles, the
first vessel to which the invention has been applied, and the
instantaneous manner in which the messages wore trans-
mitted from the bridge to the engine room, and its admirable
working, proved the groat value of the invention.
At the close of the trials yesterday the Achilles steamed
up the Medway and took up her former moorings at Folly
Point, Admiral Drummond having left the frigate at the
Nero, and embarked on board the Lizsard paddlewheel
steamer, which landed him at Shames.

MIDDLE CLASS ATLAS OF GENERAL GEOGRAPHY.
Longman and Co.—This excellent • atlas contains
all the most recent territorial changes and discoveries, and
exhibits at a glance, by means of sections, diagrams, &a.,
the mountains, rivers, and areas of the various countries of
the world. It has bean produced under the supervision of
W. l‘l'Leoa, Esq., F.R.G.S., and the maps are all en-
graved in the best manner by E. Weller, also of the Geo-
graphical Society. Tho middle class atlas was originally
designed for the use of candidates preparing for the Oxford
Local Examinations, but it has been so enlarged that it is
now, as regards price, accuracy, and finish, one of the best
atlases ever issued from the press, and coisequently well
adapted for general use in collegiate, grammar, and private
schools.

A Navajo woman, who recently acted as guide to
a party of Mexicans in a journey from the Canejo country
to Santa Fe, says that in her country gold is so common
that the Indians use it to make bullets. We imagine the
Navajos draw the long bow aleo,—Botton avertiser.

SCILITCHINOS.—On the 22d April, at 3 p.m. Revival
out of the 1,000 Guineas Stakes—at 345 p.m. all Lord
Westmoreland's horses out of the Chester Cup—and at 5 10
p.m. Knight of Snowden and colt by Orlando—Lady Pal-
merston's dam out of the 2,0(.:0 Guineas Stakes. On the
23d, at 12 40 p.m. Dunkeld out of the Flying Dutchman's
Handicap at York—at 330 p.m. Caryophyllus out of tho
Prince of Wales Handicap at Newmarket—after 6 p.m.
Komptown out of all engagements up to First October
Meeting—at 8 7 par.. Midnight Mass out of engagements
at Newmarket First Spring and Epsom Derby—and at 9
p m. Lady Emma and Bangle out of the Prince of Wales
Handicap at Newmarket. On the 24th, at 155 p.m.
ltigolboche out of the Prince of Wales Handicap at New-
market—at 3 50 p.m. Dolphin out of the Prince of Wales
Handicap at Newmarket—at 4 45 p.m. Muezzin out of the
Prince of Wales Handicap at Newmarket—at 5 p.m. Merry
Hart and Amelia out of the Prince of Wales Handicap at
Newmarket, and War Dance, Auricula, Alliance, Ar-
rnourer, Castle Epsie, Ellerby, Ayacucho, and Marabout
out of the 2000 Guineas Stakes—at 5 45 p.m. Lounger and
Franciscan out of all engagements—at 6 p.m. Ilospodar
and Stradella out of the Prince of II ales Handicap at New •
market—at 6 15 p.m. Woodcraft out of all engagements
for three months—at 6 41 p.m. Balornock out of the
2000 Guineas Stakes; and at 10 p.m. Echo and Templar
out of the Prince of Wales Handicap at Newmarket
On the 25th, at 9 a.m. safeguard out of all engagements:
and Cardinal out of the Chester Cup—at 5 45 p,m. Lord
Exeter's horses out of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes—and at
610 p.m. Durham out of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes. On
the 26th, at 9 a.m. Sister to Knutaford (dead) out of all
engagements, Lady Bohun out of the 1,000 Guineas Stakes,
and colt by Orlando—Lady Palmerston's dam out of the
Newmarket Stakes—at 10 48 a.m. Claremont out of the
2,000 Guineas Stakes—and at 11 15 p.m. First Flight out
of the Derby. On the 27th at b6l p.m. Balornock out of
the Derby—and at 9 15 p.m. Dawdle and Loafer out of
Chester engagements.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PA3T 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
NEWMARKET RACES —Tins DAY.

£lOO HANDICAP PLATE.

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Sevon ran.
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Funeral of the Polish Exile, Lieutenant-

Colonel Nowosielski.

Amongst the comparatively few Polish exiles
now in this country there was noce probably who
shared more in the affections of his compatriots in
arms than Lieutenant-Colonel Nowosielaki, or was
more beloved by all who knew him. his remains
were interred on Tuesday afternoon at Highgate
Cemetery, and his grave was attended by numbers
of his countrymen of all ranks, 611 T inUEI to pay this
last sad tribute of respect to his memory. The
mourners wero Colonel Oborsli, Captain Kosmian,
Messieurs Do Wylde, Prusinowaki, Ostrowski,
Raczyneki, Mr. John Robert Taylor, honorary
secretary to the National League for the Indepen-
dence of Poland; and Mr. John Richardson, Com-
mon Councilman. Also, we observed the follow-
ing friends of th© deceased :—General Count Za-
moyski, Major Skulimowski, Messieurs. M. Wali.
goreki, and Charles Ruprecht, Delegates of the Na•
tional Government of Poland. Major Szulczewski,
Major :Giolgiud, Captain Bobczyneki, A Zabieki,
Are. The national Polish flag, draped in black crape,
preceded the funeral cortege. Tho sr mice was
performed according to the Church of Eng.
land ritual, when, amidst the most profound
silence, A. Zabicki delivered a most impressive
oration in the Polish language, expatiating on the
virtues of the deceased, and impassionedly depicted
the great loss the Poles had sustained in the death of
their departed brother. This was followed by an
eloquent address from Mr,. Richardson, which ho
concluded by reciting the following very beauti-
ful lines composed by Mrs. Richardson for the

occasion :
'Tie pact—thy time of strife and pain,
Thy life's ling aptly,
And thnu art gone where pain shall cease,
And tears aro wiped away,
At rest—in peace; we leave thee hero
Beneath our English skies,
No longer Exile in the land
Where thy bravo soul shall rise,
Son of that Noble Land for whom
Thou wouldet have died to save,
Her tyrants cannot reaoh thee here
Within thy 'quiet grave.
Free tears are shed above thee now;
This shall thy requiem be—
" Tho Patriot spirit cannot die,
And Poland shall be free."
After another address by a'. Polish exile, in the
Polish language, Mr. J. R. Taylor advanced in
front of the grave, and drew the attention of those
present to the uncertainty of human life, and the
joy they should all feel that their departed
brother had well performed his mission to this
world, and that other Polish patriots would soon
rise up to take Lis place. He expressed his deep
sorrow teat Mr. Edmond Boales, the President of
theNationalLeaßue for the Independence of Poland,
was not present to take part in the proceedings, and
read the following passage from a letter, apologising
for his absence, written by him to Captain Bohn-
ynski:—" I received the news of Lieut.-Colonel
Nowoeielski'e death with unfeigned sorrow. I hon-
oured him whilst living as one of the noblest minds
and purest hearts amongst your patriot band ef
Polish emigrants, whose devotion under the moat
cruel persecutions, and the most severe
trials to their own country and the rights
of other nations has bound me with loving loyalty
to their cause and to Poland for many, maw.
,y years.
I shall ever cherish his memory with a pious affee•
tion. Pray, express this for me, if necessary-"my
heart, if not my person, is with you. May Almighty
God, in hie all ruling and all directing providence
iu Christ Jesus our Saviour, yet realise all the de-
sires and wishes of our departed friend for the re-
establishment of Poland, the peace of Europe, and
the welfare of mankind." Mr. Taylor:concluded by
emphatically expressing his belief t hat the Almighty
was with them, and that Poland must and would be
free. The cortege then left the cemetery, End the
proceedings terminated.

It is said that the debate on the French budget
will give rise to an incident to which great interest
is attached. An amendment, proposed by M. de Jan*
supported by 12 members of all parties in the Chamber,
among whom is Id. Jules Fevre, will bring before the Corps
Legialatif the history of Leserques, who was executed many
years since for the robbery and murder of a traveller on the
Lyons road, of which crime he war atterwares proved to be
innocent. The object of the amendment is to restore to his
descendants a sum of 54,625 f. confiscated by the State, to-
gether with the interest from the year 1796. The daughter
of Leserques, on being refused justice by the Minister of
Finance of that day, threw herself into the Seine and watt
drowned.