The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-26 00:00:00

NORTH A.

.111E1?ICA

The subjoined relates to the remarks inserted
yesterday in illustration of the question as to the
right or othei wise of the Southern States of Ame-
rica to terminate their partnership with the Nor-
thern States :

" 63, King William-street, E.C., June 25.
" Sir,—The illustration, in a mercantile form, of
the points at issue between the Northern and
Southern States of America, given in your Money-
Marketof eight partners,
and City Article of this day, comparing
those States to a firm composed
whose articles of partnership do not contain any
limit of time, or any provision for dissolution, is
undoubtedly a correct comparison as far as it goes ;
but by diving a little into American history, the
writer might have made his simile much more full,
and his case much stronger, which you will perhaps
allow me to do.

" He might, and, indeed, he ought to have said,
not only that in the articles actually ruling the
partnership any limit of time was omitted, but that
in the articles of partnership previously existing
between the very same parties there was an express
proviso, a fundamental clause, saying and repeating
over and over again, the partnership shall be per-
petual,' which proviso or clause of perpetuity the
said partners, in -making their new and actually
ruling articles (in many points a copy of the previ-
ous ones), had carefully expunged from those
articles, together with everything that could in any
way bear on the subject, thus clearly showing that
they fully intended each of them to be free to sepa-
rate from, or at least not to be bound to remain for
ever in, the partnership.
"In fact, in the ' Articles of Confederation and
Perpetual Union' between the 13 States of North
America, done at Philadelphia on the 9th of July,
1778, ratified by the 13 States on the Ist of March,
1781—which were the Constitution of the United
States of North America until the substitution
thereto of the actual Constitution on the 17th of
September, 1787—the 13th and last article says :

16 6 . The articles of this Confederation
shall be inviolably observed by every State,
and the onion shall be perpetual ; . . and
we, the delegates . . . . . . ratify and
confirm each and every of the said articles of Con-
federation and perpetual Union, . and
solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respec-
tive constituents . . . that the Union shall be
perpetual.'
" And the second article institutes a Commission
to be drawn from the Congress, to hear and finally
determine all controversies between two or more
States, concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any
other cause whatsoever.'
" In the Constitution of the 17th of September,
1787, the actual one, not only is there no allusion to
time, duration, or dissolution of the Union, bat,be-
sides carefully expunging from their new Constitu-
tution the contents of the 13th article of their old

one in respect to perpetuity, the States were so jea-
lous of remaining unshackled, and free to separate
at will, that they did actually expunge also from
their new Constitution the Article 2 of their old one

—evidently from fear that in case of the secession of
one or mare States the remaining ones might, in
abuse of their majority, form under the said Article
2 a Court of Commission, and pretend to adjudicate
on the case.

"To follow the simile of your illustration:—
" If the five partners mentioned in it were foolish
enough to go into Chancery in order to retain the
three seceding ones, against their will, can any im-
partial and disinterested person doubt for a moment
that, on proof being given not aptly of the absence
in the articles of partnership of any provision for

its duration, hut of the positive and wilful expunc-
tion from them of a provision for perpetuity con-
tained in the previous articles between the same
parties, the Court would not even grant prolonga-
tion for one day of the partnership, but would
simply fix a delay for the distribution and appor-
tionment of the assets and liabilities.

" I think you might complete the said illustra-
ion by inserting this, on an important point which
as not yet been touched or even alluded to by any

one.

" I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedien
servant, "A. P."

THE CO.RONERSHIP OF CENTRAL

MIDDLESEX.

The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex met yes-
terday, and have convened a meeting of the candi-
dates for Friday, when the election will be fixed.
The nomination day is expected to be Friday, the
4th of July, and the polling on the following Mon-
day. It appears that the writ was only issued from
the Petty Bag-office in Chancery on Tuesday, not
having been applied for before, and when applica-
tion is made for the writ for the western district it

will be forthwith granted. The fiat of the Lord
Chancellor was dated on the 18th of June, and the
writ de Coronatore eligendo was signed by the
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. There are three
candidates for the coronership of central Middlesex,
and the election will test the opinion of the free-
holders of the district, as only freeholders of the
district are eligible to vote, whether the appoint-
ment should be given to a legal or medical man.
Dr. Lancester, Mr. C. E. Lewis, and Mr. Cameron
are candidates for the central district. In the event
of a poll being demanded it will be confined to one
day—from 8 to 4 o'clock—being the first election
since the act of 1860 (the 23d and 24th of Vic., cap-.
116). The nomination will take place at Mseryape.
bone and polling booths at other places can
b
pointed. According to the 16th section of the 7th
and Bth Vic„ cap. 92, all reasonable costs charges,
nd, or be
and expenses which the sheriffs may
bex
liable to, in andabout providing of po oopks, booths,
and clerks (such clerks ton e paid not more than one
guinea a-day) for the ppose of taking the poll,
are to be borne and paid by the several candidates
in equal proportions. The central district is bounded
on the north by Hertfordshire, on the east by the
parishes of Enfield, Edmonton, Tottenham, and
Stoke Newington, on the south by the cityand on the
of Lon-
don and the liberty of Westminster,
west by the parishes of Kensington, Willesden,
Kingsbury, Edgware, and Little Stanmore. The
Middlesex magistrates are to meet on Friday, to fix
the amount of salary to be paid to each of the new
coroners to be appointed. The late Mr. Wakley
had £l,BOO a-year, out of which he had to pay a
deputy and all his expenses. Air. Humphreys, to
whom has lately been assigned the eastern district,
has a salary of £1,500 a
-year, and has to pay his
expenses. The Middlesex magistrates, in their
petition to her Majesty on which the division was
made, stated that the salary of £l,BOO paid to the
coroner of the western district was " sufficient to
remunerate two coroners," and a question may arise
as to the expenses of each coroner in travelling
over a long district. The western district is bounded
on the north by Hertfordshire ; on the east by the
parishes of Hendon, Hampstead, Paddington, and
the city and liberty of Westminster, and on the
south by the Thames, and on the west by the river
Colne. There are four candidates for the western
district—two medical and two legal gentlemen, so
the question will be raised in each district whether
a legal or medical man shonld be appointed.

HANDEL'S Music.—As to the merits of the
music of H andel, there is no doubt that he is first and fore-
most among the professors of the divine art. Others have
excelled in special compositions, but ho,
having at a com-
paratively early period of his life achieved pre-eminence
in opera, struck out for himself a new course ; for his
oratorios, though suggested by previous works, must be
acknowledged to be the creations of an original genius with
which the works of former composers will bear no more
compar:son than the steam toy of Hero of Alexandria with
the beautiful anti powerful engines of modern machinists,
aociety.