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see that the only way to provide for the proper dis-
patch of the public business is to give to the House
of Commons a majority which will be of one mind,
and have one object. When the last election took
place, it could not have been supposed that panic.;
would so adjust themselves in the House of Commons
as to constitute an administration without the power to
conduct the public business. Yet this has evidently
been the case for the last hvo years. We know that it
is pretended, on behalf of the Yfinisters, that they were
ineffectual, because their master, the King, was ad-
verse to them ; but that now they will not be so, be-
cause they may do what they like at Court. We shall
not stop to criticise the nature of this compliment to the
present Sovereign, because we know that the state-
ment is, in some respects, at all events, not true. It
was not because the Court was aoinst the Ministers,

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nor because the House of Lords was, and is, against
them, that they got thronc;ll no business, buz because
their supporters in the House of Commons could not
agree among themselves. The Ministerial majority
has been made up of a strange jumble of factions,
without any common aim, but that of keeping a sub-
servient Administration in place. That evil will con-
tinue unless the Conservatives have the majority. The
only party of considerable strength in the country with
definite purposes and a definite policy is that of the
Conservatives. The Ministerial majority being made
up of Whigs and Radicals—of Unitatians and
Papists—of zealots and infidels—of persons holding
place under the Crown, and persons who think the
Crown a nonsensical nuisance—it is quite impossible
that agreement can be attained in most of the matters
of public business. Hence the delays which end in
nothing being done. Every elector, every man of
common sense, who wishes to put an end to the do-
nothing system, %sill do well to remember that, unless
a majority of the House of Commons be constituted
who are at unity within themselves, his object cannot
be attained. Such a majority cannot be found, un-
less it be made up of Conservatives.—Afora. Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JuLr 27.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CARLIFFE.

In this case a long discussion took place on the question
of whether the trustees of the Blackburn Academy, or
the executors of the late Mr. Carliffe, ought to bear the
costs of the proceedings anterior to the payment into
Court of a sum of money, producing 1001. a-year, be-
queathed to the Academy while it was continued in the
borough of Blackburn. His Lordship was of opinion
that the executors must pay their own costs, and the other
side have their costs, out of the interest of the fund.

CONSISTORY COURT, JULY 27.
WILLIAMS V. WILLIAMS.

This is a suit for divorce on the grounds of adultery,
promoted by Maria Theresa Williams against Henry Wil-
liams Williams, her husband. The Learned Judge gave
his decision this day. No one who had heard the evi-
dence could for a moment doubt either of the guilt of
Mr. Williams or of the innocence of Mrs. Williams.
The recriminatory plea alleging adultery against . that lady
had entirely failed, even on the evidence brought forward
to support it. The marriage of the parties had been
proved to have taken place in December, 1826, as also
the separation which occurred ten years afterwards, in
the January of 1836. The Court had no hesitation in
pronouncing for the divorce as prayed for by Mrs. Wil-
liams, and felt bound to condemn the husband in costs.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY—JaLr 27.
• JOHN MABERLEY'S BANKRUPTCY.

A meeting of the creditors under the fiat issued against
Mr. John Maberley, banker, of London and Scotland, was
held to-day, for the proof of debts and the declaration of a
further dividend.
The claim on behalf of M. Franchesson to prove fot; the
sum of 7,086/.75., being the balance due upon a bond given
by Mr. Maberley, while in Paris, some years since, for a
large amount, the validity of which at former meetings had
been disputed by the assignees, on the alleged ground that
it had been given in consideration, in whole or in part, for
losses on time bargains in foreign stock. The validity of this
bond was discussed at former meetings of the creditors, and
the claim was allowed to stand over until this day, then to
he struck off the proceedings, unless the claimant should
adduce further evidence to satisfy the mind of the Court of
the bona fide character of the stock transactions for which
the bond was given by the bankrupt.
On behalf of the claimant, the opinions of four French
Counsel of eminence were produced before the Learned
Commissioner to-day, in favour of the validity of the bond
under the law of France, as having been given for liabili-
ties incurred by Mr. Maberley under the law of France.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE ought to admit M.
Franchesson to prove for the balance claimed, subject, how-
ever, to any decision of another Court as to the validity of
the proof, should any steps be taken on behalf of the credi-
tors to obtain the striking it off from the proceedings.
In consequence of this decision the declaration of a fur-
ther dividend was postponed. The admission of the claim
will materially reduce the amount of the future dividends
to be paid to the creditors. The amount of dividends already
paid is 3s. 6d. in the pound.
MESSRS. SOMA AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.

A meeting of the creditors under the fiat issued against
the Messrs. Isaac Solly and-Son, who were extensive mer-
chants in the timber and other trades, was hell to-day for
the purpose of auditing the accounts, and declaring a di-
vidend. The total amount of the assets of the firm as at
present ascertained, is 58,370/., and the devisable assets in
hand are about 9,5001. A first dividelid of about 3s. 9d.
in the pound was ordered to be made. The estate is ex-
pected to be more productive than was at first anticipated.

NAPOLEON'S TOMB-FRENCH' SEN

TIMENT-FIZENCII FANCY.

The garrulous old soldier who has charge of the tomb
showed us the books in which the names and sentiments
of many hundred visitors arc inscribed. Of these, sonic
effusions breathed the deepest regret for the loss of an
Emperor and master, while others were rhapsodies of
abuse against the Government which had held him in
durance. " How do the French behave who visit the
grave ?" I inquired. " Their behaviour, • Sir, was the first
thing which turned me to Christianity," was the answer.
" If a French frigate come to St. Helena the men and
their officers march up clean and regular, with music
playing a dead march before them. When they come
within sight of this place they all uncover their head!,
and when they reach the railings they fall down on their
knees and kiss them, with the tears running down their
cheeks, both men and women. The Priest then reads
prayers and afterwards the officers and men all walk in pro-
cession round the grave, and take away some of the earth or
grass with them. I never can help crying myself, Sir, though
I have been a soldier for 43 years. when I see Frenchmen
take the loss of their old master so much to heart ; and I
feel much the better for seeing what I have seen here."
It is the general impression and belief of the old residents
here that the complaints of ill-usage which emanated from
Longwood did not proceed from the Emperor himself, but
from his attendants, impatient of restraint. To show how
absurd were some of the grievances I was told by a mer-
chant in James Town that, owing to the great quantity of
fine oil employed in the cosine at Longwood, the Govern-
ment stores were at one time exhausted of that article, on
which the English purveyor sent and purchased twelve dozen
from the merchant. The maitre (Motel returned it, declar-
ing it was rancid ; but the merchant put it in new bottles
and sent it back, saying it came not from the Government
stores, but from his, when it was immediately approved of.
" On all occasions," said the merchant, " I know that the
English Government took the greatest pains to provide the
best of everything for the table of the Emperor, and spared
no expense for him."---A/exandar'r " Africa."

A MARAZION BULL—The town-crier of Mara-
zion, Cornwall, in calling a meeting of the inhabitants pre-
viously to the proclamation of The Queen, requested them to
meet at the Town-hall to take into c:Asideration the best
mode of proclaiming the Princess Victoria as King.— Vest
_Briton.
M. Corte, director of the Temps, is named Cheva-
lier of the Legion of Honour. The Cross of the Honour has
also been conferred upon M. Bethune, printer and director of
the Phronique de Paris.

F ,NOLISII AND MA LTEllE.—Little intercourse
exists between English and Maltese families, the one or two
exceptions proving the rule. Lord Hastings endeavoured to
promote union by having all parties - frequently uniformly
at the Palace, thus rising the natives in their own estimation ;
but since his Lordship's death, separation again widened. In
part, I should say, we arc to blame. As superiors, it is our
duty to make first advances—as superiors, we should drop
the national feeling, exclusiveness, which broke up more than
one public amusement where the English and natives might
mingle without etiquette, without feelings of condescension on
one side or the other. Our customs, diametrically opposed
offer, it must be confessed, a bar to sociality. We dine at six,
they dine at two. We associate through the instrumentality
of cookery and wine; they are satisfied with simple corn:cr-
op/wit. The Ntaltege, also, are greatly to blame in rdlisinti
to learn English ; for English people seldom speak other
languages with pleasure—for to the employes the Italian lan-
guago is merely a temporary convenience—is not,
Olin, as English
to a
of lasting utility. They should have perceived
this. or have they an excuse. rfilirty
-54 years glider our
rule, twenty-one years annexed .to our empird—yet no more
than twenty of the natives spealc. pplecOy•—slo(leis
Turhog, Oiceve, anti *IN.