The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-10 00:00:00

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nals of Inquiry), similar to the Tribunal of Police which
exists in my capital, and in several considerable towns
in the provinces,. independently of those which already
exist in some other places. These tribunals will be
charged exclusively with the investigation of suits which
may have arisen between Mussulinans and Christians
and other classes of my subjects, as well as between sub-
jects of my Sublime Porte and foreign subjects, concern-
ing crimes that have been committed. The object thus
proposed is satisfactorily to prove and establish of-
fences which may have been committed, in order that
the innocent party may not suffer.
" The governors and the officers of police will devote
their utmost attention to carrying out the regulation
which has been established in regard to these tribunals ;
they will be most careful not to violate the principles
therein laid down, and will never fail to employ their
utmost zeal for the strict observance of all the rules
which it prescribes.
"The persons employed in these tribunals must be,
as it is stated in an article of the regulation, men of the
greatest justice, judgment, uprightness, and of tried
character, selected from among members of the Grand
Municipal Council, and other eligible persons • and, in
case of necessity, one or two clerks may also be named,
according to the circumstances of the district ; and my
Sublime Porte must be made acquainted with the ar-
rangement 3 which shall have been made.
"This, then, is what has been considered advisable by
the members of the commission ; and my orders having
been requested on the subject, I have desired that what
has been decided on should be carried into execution ;
and I herewith transmit to you, in consequence, a copy
of the foregoing regulation.
"It will be your duty, then, Va,li, as soon as you have
cognisance of this matter, to establish the tribunal in
question, according to your good judgment and discre-
tion, in the manner prescribed above ; you will nominate
and elect the members• of the tribunal ' • and you will
inform my Sublime Porte of what you shall have done.
" It will be your duty to be most careful that the mat-
ters which may arise shall be examined and conducted
in conformity with the above-mentioned regulation, with
the strictest impartiality, and the greatest justice ; thab
the guilt of the accused individual should be completely
proved and established, and that the innocent should not
be made to suffer."

(Translation.)
"Minute of the duties prescribed for the Medglis (courts)
established for the preliminary and careful examination
of,and for pronoun.-...ing sentence upon, subjects of the
Sublime Porte who shall have been guilty towards
each other of such crimes as assassination, cutting
and maiming, robbery, &c., as well as perpetrators of
similar outrages occurring between Ottoman subjects
and the subjects of foreign Powers :
"This Court, which will have nothing in common
either with the Grand Municipal Council or with the
Tribunal of Commerce, being established on the plan of
the Court of Police at Constantinople, to investigate, as
has been said above, the circumstances under which
crimes may have been committed, shall assemble on cer-
tain fixed days of the week ; it shall be composed of those
members of the Council of the chief place of the pro.
Vince who shall be considered suitable, and of other per.
sons of extreme probity, who shall be elected among the
honourable and distinguished persons of the country,
and who are in a position to fulfil the obligations of
equity and justice, and it shall be under the presidency
of the Vali.
"At the examination and the trial, the examination
of the accused, as well as the examination of the per.
sons who lay the informations, shall .be conducted with
the greatest impartiality and with the greatest equity.
"If the majority of the members of the Court have
any doubts as to the veracity of the witnesses under
examination, the Court shall make them take an oath,
with the accustomed formalities, that they will speak the
truth ; that they will speak nothing contrary to pure
truth ; that they will not conceal the truth ; and that
they will say, without omitting anything, all they
know of the case in question. After that, the Court
will hear what they have to say, and will punish them

L is proved that-they have not declared the truth.

"So long as it shall be necessary that the persons
who have come to lay inormations should lie present
together, they shall not be introduced all at onco into
the court, but they shall be interrogated separately.
None of them shall be introduced there while another is
undergoing examination. The witnesses shall be ex-
amined in the presence of the accused.

"•If there shall be any persons who confidently assert
that the depositions of the witnesses under examination
are not true, the Court shall listen to what they may have
to say on the matter, after having made them take an
oath in the manner aforesaid, and the Court shall pro-
nounce,' conformably to the opinion of the majority of
its members, on the veracity of each party.
"Everything which goes to establish the innocence of
an accused person must be taken into consideration
with the same care that the depositions which have been
made against him shall have received.

" With a view of clearly establishing the guilt or in-
nocence of an accused person, that is to say, with a view
to prevent a man really guilty from escaping the sword
of the law, and an innocent man from being punished un-
justly, the depositions of individuals of every nation and
millete, without exception, who have personal and par-
ticular knowledge of the question at issue, are to be
taken only while the Court is investigating the affair, in
order that it may obtain the positive information which
it is necessary that it should procure.
" Individuals who shall have been designated by the
plaintiff or by the defendant as haring a knowledge of
the question at issue shall be obliged to come before the
Court to declare what they know.
" The Court will have to pronounce the sentence in-
curred by the accused—convicted on the examination
which took place in his own presence—according to the
degree of his guilt and conformably with the penal laws
of the Sublime Porte ; and it will have to carry the sen-
tence into execution as soon as such sentence shall have
been approved by the Vali.
"As regards crimes which call for the Icissas' (capi-
tal punishment according to the `lex talion,is) or the
diyete' (the price of blood for a man slain), the Court
will make no decision thereon, will pronounce no sen-
tence, and will content itself with presenting to the Vali
the result of the positive information which it may have
obtained in either of the two cases, and the Vali will lay
it before the Grand Council, which will have to pronounce
a sentence in conformity with the penal laws of the
Sublime Porte.

"Every question concerning a subject of a foreign
power, either as plaintiff or as defendant, shall be dis-
cussed in this court in the presence of the consul of the
protecting Government, or before that consul's delegate ;
and that in virtue of the treaties which require his pre-
sence ; and his consent and his assent are necessary in
the first place, both for the sentence which is to be pro-
nounced, and for the execution of that sentence.
"If the individual who is on trial is a subject of a
foreign power, or an Ottoman subject, who may have
committed any offence against a foreign subject, the
examination and the sentence shall be proceeded with in
accordance with existing treaties before the Consul, or
before the dragoman delegated by him, of the Govern-
ment of which the person who is either plaintiff or defen -
dant is the subject. And the Consul or his delegate will
have the right, as well as the other members of the
Court, to question the parties, and to address inquiries
to the persons who make their depositions, and to express,
if need be, his own opinion and observations.
"If the majority of the members of the Court are of
opinion that, according to the information obtained, and
according to reason itself, an accused person is innocent,
and if that accused person has no previous bad character,
the Court will represent to the Vali the necessity of the
prisoner being set at liberty.
" If an accused person of his own free will confesses
himself to be guilty, there will remain nothing further to
he said about it. Only if it is proved that in reality such
individual is not guilty, and that the false statement
which he has made is attributed solely to threats or pro-
' wises, and that it is in spite of himself, or from having
been led into error, that be has made that confession,
such an avowal made to his own prejudice shall count
for nothing. And if it is proved by his own avowal, that
lie is really guilty, and after that he pretends that he was
persuaded by others to make that avowal, or that he
made it from having been led into error, no attention is
to be paid to that assertion.
"At the examination and at the punishment of the
guilty the Court shall not employ blows or the bastinado ;
and, above all, it shall not subject them to any species
of torture.
"When it shall have become necessary to arrest any
individual, he shall be taken before an authority, who
shall decide immediately if there are sufficient grounds
fur sending him to trial, or if he is to be set at liberty."

THE GOVERNMENT AND NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE.
A ropemaker named Ellis has recently been discharged
from her Majesty's dockyard (Devonport), for writing
and publishing in a newspaper a letter complaining of
of certain arrangements for the working of the rope-
makers in the dockyard. Some time since the artisans
of the dockyard, excepting ropemakers, were placed on
job and task work, with the opportunity of earn-
ing extra pay. The ropemakers, who felt them-
selves aggrieved at the exception, represented the matter
to the officers, and Ellis and some others were then •
placed on task work, for which they considered they
were not fairly paid. Ellis, unfortunately for himself ad-
dressed a letter to the editor of a local newspaper, stating
the grievance under which he conceived himself and others
of his class had a right to complain. His nanw was
attached to the letter, and, soon after its publication,the
an order came down for the immediate discharge
writer from government employ. Ellis, who
has
the o
always
borne a good character, has memorialised
Admi-
ralty to be reinstated, on the ground that,
atatshecotnimtrearyof
his writing the letter, he did not know it was
to any rules of the service.
EXECUTION OF THOMPSoN.—Williara Thompson, who
was convicted at the recent Norwich assizes of the
murder of Lorenz Beha, a travelling watchmaker and
jeweller, was executed on Saturday at Norwich. By the
time the law was about to be carried into effect, several
thousands, mostly country people, were collected on the
open space in front of the gallows. A few minutes
after 12 o'clock the convict, accompanied by the chap-
lain of the gaol, the under-sheriff, the governor, and
other functionaries, came before the multitude. He
walked with a firm steady step to the drop, and seemed
to treat his awful position with indifference. The chap-
lain, during the progress to the scaffold, continued to
read the service for the burial of the dead, which, how-
ever, appeared to make but little impression on him.
On Calcraft desiring him to ascend the steps to the drop,
he did so with firmness, and walked forward under the
fatal beam. The hangman adjusted the cap and rope,
and, after a few moments' prayer, the signal was given,
the bolt was withdrawn, and Thompson, after some brief
and severe struggles, was no more. The convict made a
full confession of his guilt, and fully described the man•
ner in which the horrible crime way perpetrated.