The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-15 00:00:00

ii, S.

THE PRINCE CONSOR2 MEMORIAL.

BANS OF FRANCE.

The following is the account for month ending
Thursday, March 13 :

ASSETS. F. C.
Cash and ingots .. .. • • .. 148,885,054 94
Cash at the branch-banks .. .. .. 266,340,231
Bills due to be paid to-day.. .. .. 999,786 58
Bills becoming ;due in Paris, of which
69,729,155 f. 50c. are from the branch-

_ , ,
banks .. .. • . .. 352,050,160 10
• •
Bills in the branch-banks . , .. .. 285,744,964
Advances on coin and ingots .. .. 12,233,733 59
Do. in the branch-banks .. .. 2,030,700
Do on French securities .. .. 141,933,000
Do in the branch-banks 8,079,900
Do on railway shares and bonds .. 42,641,400
Do in the branch-banks 20,706,200
Do on Credit Foncier Bonds .. .. 246,700
Do in the branch-banks • . 195,000
• •
Do to State by treaty, 1848 ..
.. 30,000,000
Rentes of the reserve-fund • • .. 12,980,750 14
Rentes, disposable funds .. .. . 29,872,390 26
Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. .. 4,000,000
Real property of branch-banks .. .. 5,918,755
.. 20,491,802 33
sEunxpderniseess of administration... . .. •: :• 645,491 GO

1,485,996,019 54

LIABILITIES.
Capital 91,250,000
New Capital .. • • • • • • 91,250,000
Reserve-fund .. .. 12,980,750 14
New Reserve 9,125,000
Reserve-immobiliere .. 4,000,000
Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of
law June 9, 1857) 2 316 503 57
Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and
the branch-banks 838,195,925
Do. to order (Post-bills) • • • • 9,090,062 71
Bills payable at sight 8,071,938
Ace, cur. of Treasury Creditor .. 169,676,322 74
Various accounts current .. .. 200,563,060 82
Do. branch-banks 34,373,303
Dividends to be paid 1,426,641 75
Arrears of values deposited .. • . 1,571,836 38
Discount, interest, and expenses .. .. 8,066,836 50
Re-discounts of the last half-year .. 2,727,525 79
Sundries .. • . 1,310,313 10

1,485,966,019 54

LR27.FR OF THR EMPEROR OF THE

FREACIT TO THE KING OF ITALY.

In the course of the debate on the address in the
Corps Legislatif on Wednesday, M. Billault read
the following letter, addressed in 1861 by the Em-
peror Napoleon lIL to King Victor Emmanuel.
It is dated some days after the official recognition of
the Italian kingdom by France :
" Vichy, July 12, 1861.

"Monsieur mon FrEre—l was happy to be able
to recognise the new kingdom of Italy at the mo-
ment when your Majesty lost the man who had
contributed the most to the regeneration of his
country. By so doing I wished to give a fresh
proof of my sympathy in a cause for which we had
fought together. In resuming our official relations,
however, I am compelled to make some reserves for
the future. A government is always bound by its
antecedents. _ _

It is now 11 years that I have supported the
power of the Holy Father at Rome ; in spite of my
desire not to occupy militarily any portion of the
Italian soil, circumstances have always been such
that it has been impossible for me to evacuate
Rome. In doing so without weighty guarantees, I
should have forfeited the confidence which the chief
of religion had placed in the protection of France.
The position is still the same. _ _ _

I must therefor 3 frankly declare to your Majesty
that while recognising the new kingdom of Italy,
I shall leave my troops at Rome so long as it shall
not be reconciled with the Pope, or as long as the
Holy Father shall be threatened with seeing the
States still remaining to him invaded by a force
regular or irregular.
In this circumstance your Majesty may be well
persuaded that I am influenced solely by a feeling
of duty. I may entertain opinions in opposition to
those of your Majesty. I may think that political
transformations are the work of time, and that a
complete aggregation cannot be durable except in-
asmuch as it shall have been prepared by the assi-
milation of interests, ideas, and customs—in a word,
I think that unity ought to have followed, and not
preceded, union ; but that conviction has not in any
way influenced my conduct. The Italians are the
best judges of what suits them ; and it is not for
me, the issue of popular election, to pretend to
weigh on the decisions of a free people.
I therefore hope that your Majesty will unite
your efforts to mine, in order that for the future
nothing shall happen to disturb the good harmony so
Ilappily re established between the twogovernments.

EXTRAORDINARY _ROBBERIES AT

111 E GEX_ERA L POST-OFFICE.

During the last few days considerable anxiety has
been created amongst the bankers and merchants in
the City by the discovery of the robbery of a regis-
tered letter, containing notes and cheques of the
value, it is reported, of £5,000, the whole of which
has been realised in gold at the Bank of England.
Upon waiting on the Secretary of the Post-office at
St. Martin's-le-Grand, our reporter was informed of
the following facts :—On Friday, the 7th inst., a
letter was registered at Waterford, addressed to
Messrs. Leaf and Co., Old Change, London, and
duly forwarded to the metropolis. It is known to
have safely reached St. Martin's-le-Grand, as the
authorities have adopted a plan of requiring the
postmen to sign a receipt when registered letters
are handed over to them for delivery to the
parties to whom they are addressed. On the
occasion in question the clerk of the registered
letter department called the postman by name to
the pigeon hole of the office. Somebody answered,
who at the time was believed to be the proper per-
son, and after signing the usual form of receipt the
registered letter in question was given him to deli-
ver. Nothing more was heard of the matter until
the middle of the week, when a communication was
received from Messrs, Leaf inquiring the reason why
the registered letter in question had not been de-
livered. The clerk of the registered letter depart-
ment was at once referred to, and he produced the
postman's receipt to show that Thee ad dmul hoafndt
aynhede
over the letter for delivery. post
walk was then sent for, and on attending he was
interrogated why he had not delivered the letter to
the firm. Ile denied ever having the letter, and on
the receipt being produced he stated that it was not
his signature, and that it was a forgery. The offi-
cials of the Post-office at once instituted the fullest
inquiry, with a view of ascertaining who had got
possession of the letter, but we believe that nothing
satisfactory was elicited, except that the letter had
been fraudulently obtained by means of a deep-
laid scheme, either by some one connected with the
Post-office, or by some person who had a perfect
knowledge of the registered letter issue department
and of the way the business was transacted. It is
stated that on Messrs. Leaf finding that the letter
was missing, they at once gave the usual notice to
the bankers to stop the cheques and notes. Unfor-
tunately, however, the warning was too late. The
cheques had been paid, and the notes had been ex-
changed for gold at the Bank of England. So the
matter at present stands. Another registered letter,
containing, it is said, £2,000, is reported to have
disappeared under similar circumstances. It is not
llong since a registered letter from Lincoln to one of
the bankers in Lombard-street was abstracted, and
these frequent losses have occasioned some uneasi-
ness in the City, inasmuch as the Post-office do not
hold themselves responsible for thieteoisntuenndtserosftoroed-
gistered letters. The Post-office,
disavow all responsibility ;
eporied, the system of
and in that case, sup-
posing the facts to be as r
registration must be regarded onlyasathdaetluifsitohne.
It is by no means improbable, however,
question of ul
o
responsibility shd come before a court
special
thopaavbyeemr beeneenntd fullyered against
having been
of law the fact of a
made to the Post-office for the exercise of special
nottexer-
cised,c re, whichwill care could
cause
a ve
them, even
given notice of non-liability.
although therdyic may plead than they have
always

wilippiNG.—The bill to amend the law as to the
whipping of juveniles and other offenders, brought in by
Mr. Hadfield and others, provides that where the punish-
ment of whipping is awarded for any offence by order of
one or more justice or justices made in exercise of his or
their power of summary conviction, or in Scotland by the
Court of Justiciary, or by any sheriff or magistrate, the
order, sentence, or conviction awarding such punishment,
shall specify the number of strokes to be inflicted and the
instrument to be used in the infliction of them, and in the
case of an offender whose age does not exceed 14 years, the
number of strokes inflicted shall not exceed 12.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Earl of Derby,
the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Cubitt, the Lora Mayor,
and Sir Charles Eastlake, the president of the
Royal Academy, who were recently nominated by
the Queen to advise her Majesty in the choice and
mode of execution of a design for the proposed.
national memorial of the lamented Prince Consort,
held another conference on the subject in the Coun-
cil Chamber of the Fine Arts Commission, at the
Palace of Westminster.
Mr. Marshall, the chairman of the Ross and Mull
Granite Company, attended before the committee,
and gave additional information respecting the.
block of red granite, about 106 feet in lengtii
and some 12 feet square on an average, which
had been discovered in an unleased qua cry
there belonging to the Duke of Argyll, and, to
which the attention of the committee had been pre-
viously dii ected as suitable for the intended memo-
rial. He produced a diagram of the stone and plans,
prepared by Captain Moorsom, the company's en-
gineer, showing its position and outline, and that is
about 500 yards distant from the sea. He ex-
plained that it had been uncovered to the extent of
about 106 feet, and that as both its ends are still
embedded, it may be found to be of even a greater
available length than that. Upon the whole, the
information he gave went to impress the committee
that this block of granite afforded greater
promise of grandeur and aptitude for the pur-
pose of a monolithic obelisk than at first they
had been led to imagine. For the present therefore
their attention is concentrated upon it, though they
have received communications upon the subject from
the owners and lessees of other granite quarries in
the kingdom, especially one from Lord Falmouth,
who has made a generous offer in the event of his
quarries of serpentine being found to contain a
single stone of sufficient dimensions. It is under-
stood that the Duke of Argyll has intimated to the
committee his desire to present them with the
stone to which reference has been made on his pro-
perty in the Island of Mull, if eventually it should
be thought to fulfil the condition on which
her Majesty decided in favour of an obelisk as
a fitting memorial of her illustrious Consort.
Oa the assumption of such a gift by his grace
the Granite Company, who lease some of the adja-
cent quarries to that in which it lies, have given in
two estimates—one of £25,000, as the probable cost
of quarrying the stone, shaping and polishing it on
the spot, and removing it to the water's edge ; the
other of £15,000 for those operations, less the po-
lishing, which in that case would be done in Lon-
don. Mr. Marshall calculated that the interval
required for the operations covered by the first
estimate would extend from the present time to the
summer of 1863. •
It remains to be stated that the Memerfal Fund
now being raised at the:Mansion-House amounted
last evening to £40,500. Among the donors yes-
terday were Lord Redesdale, £lOO, and the Grocers'
Company, £lOO.

MANCHESTER PATENT LAW REFORM
40.80C1ATION.

A general committee meeting of the Manchester
Patent Law Reform Association was held yesterday
afternoon in the B Committee-room of the Town
Hall. The chair was taken by Mr. William Fair-
bairn, LLD., F.R.S., and thEre were also present—
Messrs. Marshall, W. B. Johnson, John Bell, James
Potter, W. Routledge, E. Scott, P. Grant, Peter
Effertz, J. Cooke, C. Schiele, J. Revelle, T. Clay-
ton, and E. J. Hughes, hon. secretary. The
meeting- was especially called to consider the
report of a sub-committee to which the resolu,-
tions proposed by a committee of the British Asso-
ci,itifm for a reform of Patent Laws had been
referred. The sub-committee, after considering
what defects in the working of the present law re-
quire amendment, and after examining carefully
the resolutions of the British Association, had re•
solved to recommend certain alterations which they
were of opinion would not interfere with the rights
of inventors, and at the same time, by preventing a
number of useless patients being granted, would be
an additional security tde the public. These altera-
tions, as subsequently amended by the general
meeting, were as follows :

1. That a Court of Commissioners or Examiners shall be
appointed, to consist of three members, eminent for their
scientific acquirements, one to be conversant with mechani-
cal engineering, the second with chemistry, and the third
a barrister, or law officer, with a sufficient stiff of assistants,
who shall devote the whole of their time to the Patent-
office, and be paid liberal salaries out of the funds arising
from the fees paid for letters patent. 2. That the said
Commissioners shall grant provisional protection for in-
ventions on application as heretofore. 3. That the Com-
missioners shall carefully examine each invention as pro-
visionally protected, as to the novelty thereof. 4. That
the Commissioners shall, within two months from the date
of the provisional protection, either authorise the grant
of the patent, or inform the applicant that they have
doubts about the novelty of the invention, stating their
reasons, and referring him to the authorities they de-
pend upon for proving the want of novelty, or, if ne-
cessary, to require further particulars than are contained in
the provisional specification; in such case, the applicant
shall furnish additional descriptions within one month after
receiving such notice, or such longer time as the Commis-
sioners, in their discretion, may deem necessary. 5. That
the applicant shall have one month to file his specification,
after receiving the decision of the Commissioners. 6. That
any person interested in opposing the grant of any patent
shall give notice of his objections to the Commissioners pre-
vious to the expiration of two months from the date of pro-
visional protection. 7. That when the Commissioners report
against the novelty of any invention, the applicant shall have
the privilege of asking for a re .examination, at which he
shall produce either viva voce evidence before the Commis-
sioners, or give them additional particulars in writ-
ing. 8. That the applicant shall pay reasonable fees for
such e-eamregulated
shallb b ytheetried
Com-
missioners.teaTt iho
ant,
athilecafeesesstoo b
of
infringement
in the first instance in any of the ordinary courts of law,
r ,i. n
before a special jury of gentlemen conversant with the sub-
ject-matter of dispute. 10. That either party shall have the
power of appealing against the decision of such jury to the
Judges sitting in Banco, and that, if they confirm the judg-
ment already given, their decision shall be final ; but if they
differ, an appeal to the Privy Council shall be allowed, but
whose decision shall be final. 11. That if the patentee shall
find that he has claimed something in his provisional specifi-
cation which is not new or useful, he shall be allowed to dis-
claim the same in his final specification. 12. That the £5O
tax now payable at the expiration, of the third year, and
also the £lOO payable at the expiration of the seventh year,
be abolished, but £5O, payable at the expiration of the fifth
year, be substituted therefore.
After some discussion the resolutions were
• agreed to.

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A New York correspondent says :—" Standing
near me at the execution of Capt, Gordon to-day was Edwin.
James, the celebrated criminal lawyer of England. He is
getting posted in our criminal matters. James said it was
uR.T theh e reven soldiers
revenue
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United
Royal
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one of the most delightful executions he had ever attended,
and what seemed to surprise him the most was the fact—
that none but gentlemen were present There were not
tilohvacErrpbAas°s3lMsin saGegriAfnTitamsgate for the year 1860-61, chiefly from
Mane:
H
. persons „ presentHAßßOUß.—The
besides
toll, amounted to £19,067. The harbour ex-
penses, together with the works of maintenance and im-
provement, absorbed £12,925 of this revenue, and various
salaries and allowances reduced to £2,005, the net balance
remained at
Trust, theOt ear's end to be added to the fund of
to £93,211.
wiethheHhahe y
n A
amountingFOUNDERINGMP AT SEA.—On Thurs-
day the T. B. Bertram ship, Captain W. Nichols, com-
mander, arrived at Kiladen with grain. She n
sailed gsto
from from
n harbour, New York,
New York on Feb. 12,
and experienced heavy weather during
On the Bth of March, when about 500 miles west
a
of the
coast of Ireland, in lat. 48, long. 16, the wind blowing
whole gale at the time, she spoke a large full-rigged ship
in distress ; but, owing to the tempestuous character of
the weather, the captain was totally unable to afford
any assistance that day. With most commendable
humanity, however, he stood by the distressed ship off and
on till next day, when, the weather moderating, a boat was
lowered from the evidently sinking ship, reaching the Bar-
tram in safety with captain, mate, crew, and OLIO lady, a
passenger ; in all 20 persons. The vessel proved to be the
Sultan, from Africa to Liverpool, laden with guano, Captain
Steel, commander. The vessel was stated to have left in a
c
leaky state, the water, owing chiefly to the violence of the
sea, gaining upon her so much that she is believed to have
gone down in 20 hours after she was abandoned, although
an invention of Captain Steers, a kind of windmill capable
of pumping out 20 tons of water in an hour, was kept eo
moment the crew left.
stantly going till the 1/1 The cattani;
saved his papers and valuables, the lady losing all her' --
spare
clothing a the moment of leaving the Sultan. The Ber-
• lat- 45 deg., long. 70, also fell in
tram, in with 16 casks of
oil, marked " V," within a diamond. To Captain Nichols,
of the Bertram, too much praise cannot be awarded for hie
1 humanity.

IMPERIAL ~?~~I.41AN1L1~T.

HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY.
The LORD CRA.NUELLOR took his seat on the woolsack

at five o'clock.
THE REVISED CODE.
Lord BELPER presented petitions against the revised
code from places in Shropshire.
The Earl cf SHAFTESBURY presented petitions to the
same effect from the infant school teachers and others in

Leek and Alliston.
The Earl of CARNARVON presented similar petitions.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY also presented peti-
tions to the like effect.
Lord ST. LEONARDS having presented a number of
petitions against the revised code, proceeded to call the
attention of the house to so much of the revised code as re-

lated is the grouping of children for examination. The
noble lord said he did not rise for the purpose of raisin?, a
discussion on the several principles of the code, or did he

propose to enter into a general condemnation of the measure
because it contained much of which he approved. In the
first place he considered that the time had arrived to put a
stop to the great expenditure that was going on, because if
that was not done the result would be that a greater
increase would take place in that which was already looked
upon as excessive. He did not object to pay for results,
and he felt sure that if proper modifications were intro-
duced into the Revised Code the result would be
highly satisfactory. With respect to the religious
part of the education of the young he attached the
greatest importance to it. In the national schools the re-
ligious instruction given to the children had an influence
much greater than many anticipated, for the children car-
ried its influence to their homes ; and while they received
the benefit of it, they shed its blessing amongst their but
imperfectly educated parents. With respect to the mode
of examining the children under the Revised Code, he was
of opinion that it would be impracticable, because the pro-
per time could not be devoted to each child, and he arrived
at this opinion after trying the experiment in an establishment
in which he took the greatest interest. He wished to draw
the attention of the house especially to the examination of
the children in groups, and in doing so he would
observe that he could see no otjection to the
subjects in which the boys were to be examined, but
ho could not say the same with respect to the girls. They
in most instances, had to assist in family affairs, which
the boys had not, and therefore that which might be
advaniageous in one case would be nearly impracticable in
the other. Therefore he could not consider the test proposed
a safe one. It might almost be as reasonable to classify the
children according to their weight as their age, and he
did not think there was a single school in England where
age was taken as the standard of intellect.
Lord KINGSDOWN called attention to the hardships
which would arise, when this scheme should be carried
into effect, in the cases of the recently established schools at
Chatham and Brompton.
The Bishop of LONDON said that, although he agreed
with the main principles of the Revised Code, he thought
the suggestion of the Commission of Inquiry, that there
should be two grants instead of one, a very good one—the
one grant for the result of the examination, the second for
attendance. If Government made this concession, it would
go far to effect a favourable change in regard to the Re-
vised Code in the publio mind.
Lord GRANVILLE having deprecated objections being
taken to the Revised Code without suggestions for a better
system being made at the same time, admitting the evils of
voluntary contributions, but did not see how they could be
avoided without the whole expenses of the schools being
assumed by the Government. He briefly adverted to the
emai ks of Lord Kingsdown on the Chatham and Brompton
schools, and proceeded to show why the suggestions advo-
cated by the Bishop of London were inadmissible, for it
would be better to go back to the existing minute than to
make grants for attendance at schools. He then considered
the objections raised by Lord St. Leonards, vindicated the
examination of children by age, and showed the various ad-
vantages which would follow its adoption, answered the
various details suggested by Lord St. Leonards, and, in
conclusion, thanked the house for the very candid manner
in which they had discussed this question.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Alford Valley Railway Bill was read a third time
and passed.