The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-08 00:00:00

COACH OPPOSITION.

Our readers will no doubt recollect the intern:
created by the proceedings adopted by the proprietors
of the Eagle against those of the Messageries Royalos
and Generales, for a combination and a breach of tht•
law, in coalescing to prevent their opposition to the mo-
nopoly, which they had previously engrossed, and in
which proceedings the proprietors of the Eagle
their attempt. But it seems that this question is still
open, for a proceeding has lately taken phee at Paris, in
which a different result has been obtained.

The matter in question, which was a proceeding by
the Messageries Francaises against the two Grand Com-
panies, has occupied the Court in Parii five days, itrui
has terminated in a judgment against the Grand Com-
panies, of a penalty of 500 francs each, besides damage:,
to he settled hereafter.

The article upon which the proccedinrr is founded is
419 of the Code Penal, and is as follow::
" Every one, who by false and calumnious acts, de-
signedly disseminated More the public, by proposing
lower prices than the buyers themselves seek to pay ;
by combination between the principal holders of the
same merchandize or commodity, not to sell, or to sell
only at a certain price ; or who by any fraudulent acts
or arrangements, shall have caused the prices of C3lll-
modities, or merchandizes, or th© public securities, to
he higher or lower than fair opposition and free-
dom of commerce shall point out, shall be punish d
with au imprisoment of not less than
nor more than a year, and with a fine between 500 and
1,000 francs. The parties convicted may besides b:‘
placed by an order or the judgment of the Court, under
the surveillance of the police for a period between two
or five years.—Boulogne Journal.

An outcry has been made in the Tory papers
because Lord John Russell, relying. on the stat.,ments in
in the parrs, that Sir Herbert Taylor (lied at Rome on
the 13th of March, sent a letter to the clerasym.su of St.
Katharine's, demanding the charter. .‘ Lord John Rus-
sell," says the writer of a paragraph in the Times, •' sends
for the charter before the governor is dead 1" And this is
deemed a dreadful outrage against all decency and pro .
priety. Sir Herbert Taylor was not dead on the 13th,
though all the accounts received for same time before from
Rome pronounced his recovery hopeless, and led to lh,
implicit belief of the statement of his death. He died• how.,
ever on the 20th. But why did not Lord John Rusoll w,iit
till he had received an official account of his death ?
In ordinary cases we have no doubt that his Lordship would
not have demanded the charter on merely seeing a state-
ment in a newspaper, however implicitly he might credit
it ; but have waited till the death was officially eon„,,uni_
cated to him. But there were peculiar circumstances con-
fleeted with the mastership of Saint Katharine's, that de-
manded on the part of his Lordship a prompt interference.
The office is in the gift of the Queen Con3ort, end Queen
Adelaide conceiving that the title appertains to her, is un_
derstood to have named the Earl of Denbigh, the master of
her horse, as Sir Herbert Taylor's successor, before she left
England. Now, though we have no doubt that the
Queen Dowager conscientiously believed sho..wa, only
~I.lels ri'oh'
exercising a right appertaining to her, whets she
made
of Lord J lute'
a grant of this lucrative office to Lord ry,-, i •
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yet it is not the less true that she possesses Lo
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voloys:.p.
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having ceased to be Queen Consort on the d, at: of hit. t
Sovereign, 12.Ittajsseestd;
ment the subject belonged, to guard against an
d•
and -
as d
the it
ings that might have been attended with
pense to Lord Denbigh, and have opposed i . ex-
mpediment, to
the exercise of the rights of the
statement will serve to show that Lord John This
simple
no more than his bounden duty, when h Rhusselll:l4
tion of which such a handle has b, e tna,x t.a, app..ea-
_Paper. been made, —ifornisty
WATCH RATES.—A. Rate payer of St. An-
drew's, Holborn, wishes to know what-
rate to be at the enormous sum of Is.6cdau. I.',:es
itlL .ie
P tthicon-
the whole rental? He states that itllasb,l(. t inilt chat SUM
for years past, while out of the City the rate has Feid,
been more than 61 or Bri.